Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.