Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it..

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish..

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain..

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infin….

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed..

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged..

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived..

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate..

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found..

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its p….

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by th….

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands..

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed ne….

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubl….

Spring-an experience in immortality..

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguis….

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and….

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things..

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Seco….

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused..

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone..