The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it..

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have ….

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind….

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap..

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence..

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable mo….

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, ….

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of Dryden, and Po….

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but t….

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean w….

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals..

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!.

Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such new….

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep..

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows..

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress..

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhap….

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was on….

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that ti….

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world..