Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

I honor health as the first Muse.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.