Life is our dictionary.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Reality is a sliding door.
Every wall is a door.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
