Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.