A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.