Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.