We may be partial, but Fate is not.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.