A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

I like people who like Plato.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.