When souls are great, the body wearies itself in pursuit of what they desire.

If a man's honor is not stained by baseness, then every cloak he wears is beautiful.

Do not live as if you had ten thousand years before you. Death hangs over you: while you live, while it is still in your power, be good.

If a man does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Man's character is his fate.

The highest good is like water: it benefits all things without contending, and settles in the low places that people disdain.

In the happiness of the people lies the ruler's happiness; in their welfare, his welfare. His own pleasure is not his good — the good of the people is his good.

We must cultivate our garden.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.