The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.