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Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Our best thoughts come from others.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.