The pest of society is egotists..

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy..

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and ….

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant..

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold..

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind..

The only reward of virtue is virtue..

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and….

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of th….

Every man believes he has a greater possibility..

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole..

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can..

We find in life exactly what we put into it.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense..

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony..

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the s….

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind..

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and ….

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere..

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common..

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you..