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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out...more

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own ...more

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose fa...more

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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The years teach much the days never know.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.