Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.