You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.