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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

There is always safety in valor.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.