You cannot hide the soul..

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. N….

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the into….

Silence is the only Voice of our God..

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles ….

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath mor….

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand..

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And fo….

I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other ….

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consol….

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them..

I would prefer not to..

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up….

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning..

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote..

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing….

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of….

Truth is in things, and not in words..

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion..

Youth is the time when hearts are large..