Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship,….

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive an….

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers t….

Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little t….

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall..

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not..

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully..

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another..

Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact….

Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horr….

Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or….

The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements….

The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in the wilderness over the heads of t….

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is mer….

Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sou….

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and b….

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this w….

As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in….

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not..