Quotes

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable

It is better to say, “This one thing I do” than to say, “These forty things I dabble in.”

Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his maker can teach him.

No man is born into the world, whose work is not born with him. There is always work and tools to work withal, for

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Strong hearts within the present live, The future veiled, the past forgot; Grasping what is with hands of steel, They bind what shall be

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to