Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.