What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.