In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past..

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare..

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated..

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes..

Every person born into this world their work is born with them..

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return..

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances..

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised..

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action..

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men..

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof..

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy w….

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light..

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is t….

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch..

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful..

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out ….

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice..

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars..

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field..

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on..