A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.