Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. ….

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but….

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acale….

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are i….

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also..

Women see through Claude Lorraines..

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the ab….

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is lik….

The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the ….

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself..

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye make….

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey..

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet..

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, s….

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel..

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech..

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want….

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem..

Only poetry inspires poetry..

No institution will be better than the institutor..