But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendo….

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of ….

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all..

You can take better care of your secret than another can..

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call….

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, sup….

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men s….

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to….

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this e….

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it..

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience..

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man..

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, ….

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own..

Fear is a great instructor..

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy..

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps..

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him..

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of ev….

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence..

The eye is easily frightened..