To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — "Always do what you are afraid to do."
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
It is an amiable illusion, which the shape of our planet prompts, that every man is at the top of the world.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
A man is made by the books he reads.
The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
We boil at different degrees.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
