I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.