It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual..

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul..

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books..

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck..

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will..

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth….

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own..

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints..

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes..

Pride eradicates all vices but itself..

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the….

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of aff….

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem t….

Be not the slave of your own past..

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or sec….

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?.

Our prayers are prophets..

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised..

People who know how to act are never preachers..

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forw….