The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn..

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter..

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know..

Accept your genius and say what you think..

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long..

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself..

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe..

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart..

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without t….

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed..

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'.

A man is what he thinks about all day long..

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character..

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought ….

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion..

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their pre….

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours..

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of p….

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will..

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator s….

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do..