The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard..

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacl….

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude..

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself..

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science..

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me..

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo..

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his….

Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt th….

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep..

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quota….

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he..

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole..

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told..

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls..

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream..

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the ….

The poor are only they who feel poor..

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality..

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by pr….

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth..