The education of the will is the object of our existence..

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business..

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep..

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, wh….

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure..

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling..

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country..

Genius has no taste for weaving sand..

It is with a good book as it is with good company..

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present..

An empire is an immense egotism..

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it ….

It is defeat which educates us..

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works..

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone..

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the ora….

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena..

I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the othe….

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder..

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine….