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..

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 greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after..

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We hav….

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn..

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometime….

As for health, consider yourself well..

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father..

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested..

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent..

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us..

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent….

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest….

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by….

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down..

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in t….

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert..

Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a win….

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the roa….

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society..