The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say,….

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed am….

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargai….

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing..

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them..

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself..

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous..

The victory's in believing..

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in i….

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday..

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own….

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days..

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise..

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor..

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes..

But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart..

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As t….

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face..

And blessed are the horny hands of toil..

One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perh….

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius..