Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.