All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.