Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.
Character is a perfectly educated will.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Where are we really going? Always home.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences.
No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.