Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men..

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration..

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food….

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read..

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

Always scorn appearances and you always may..

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds..

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do..

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefa….

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters..

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty..

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact..

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of ….

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials..

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish..

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore th….

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub..

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor..

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and s….

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the….

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality..