A little integrity is better than any career..

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea..

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have….

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else..

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….

Power dwells with cheerfulness..

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 ….

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds..

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind..

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth..

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terri….

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames..

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following..

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses..

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses aro….

Culture opens the sense of beauty..

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by d….

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it….

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when th….