What is called genius is the abundance of life or health.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse.
To be awake is to be alive.
