We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses..

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience..

The best part of health is fine disposition.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery..

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art ….

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit..

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste..

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness..

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body..

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can b….

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech..

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not..

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone..

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it..

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nigh….

We never touch but at points..

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and pow….

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, b….

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have n….