The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Money often costs too much.
No man can have society upon his own terms.
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
The hero is he who is immovably centered.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Beauty rests on necessities.
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
All great men come out of the middle classes.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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