Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature..

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands..

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy..

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

I like people who can do things.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great..

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be t….

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American..

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-g….

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear..

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great c….

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists o….

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again..

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on eart….

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you sta….

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets ….

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is t….

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes..

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has….

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats ….

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but th….