Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion..

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies..

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom..

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flav….

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around..

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I co….

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure….

I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had Passed ove….

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us..

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my….

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if y….

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison..

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any ….

The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing ….

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, eve….

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. T….

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be t….

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition….

We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate….

Goodness is the only investment that never fails..