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I seemed to have nothing left to live for.

A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

While I silently ponder on that Change wrought in me, I find no Language equal to it, nor any Means to convey to another a clear Idea of it.

Have none of my Fellow Creatures an equitable Right to any Part which is called mine?

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.

in the exercise of this high power, we must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles

A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

Anger is not only a vice, but a vice point-blank against nature, for it divides instead of joining