Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and ….

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know..

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another be….

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of th….

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every s….

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets….

Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and….

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of th….

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again..

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . ..

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body..

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in ord….

The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a thi….

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money..

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . ..

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not..

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them..

There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that ….

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy..

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful….

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands..