As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey..

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge..

Wise men are not wise at all times..

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us rea….

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of t….

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension..

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir..

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, ….

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face..

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried..

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of..

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which char….

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought ….

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today..

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person..

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all h….

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and….

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….

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air..