Be an opener of doors

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.