Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them procee….
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else..
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp ….
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine..
Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others ….
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame..
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person..
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say..
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they g….
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intel….
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds..
The religions we call false were once true..
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of poss….
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns..
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much ….
The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more w….
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine..
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen..
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are i….
Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light..