There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.