Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.