You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral..

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus..

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding..

We have more than we use..

I like people who like Plato..

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry..

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is might….

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die..

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from t….

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, ….

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think..

Genius appeals to the future..

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock..

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact..

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship..

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do wit….

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, ….

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends..

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gat….

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting..