1. “There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.”
2. “Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.”
3. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
4. “I seldom go into natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”
5. “We can outrun the win and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.”
6. “We are made strong by what we overcome.”
7. “Close scrutiny of an object always yield some significant fact.”
8. “The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”
9. “A somebodyy was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
10. “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
11. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
12. “The spirit of man an endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.”
13. “A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.”
14. “Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.”
15. “Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.”
16. “Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.”
17. “One ay return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.”
18. “If you think you can do it, you can.”
19. “The floating vapour is just a true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.”
20. “The secret of happiness is something to do.”
21. “The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.”
22. “To learn something new, take the path you took yesterday.”
23. “The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.”
24. “Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.”
25. “The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty and never becomes common or cheap.”
26. “It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
27. “Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
28. “We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.”
29. “Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.”
30. “Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.”
