Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong..
As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there….
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappoint….
Its the not the Destination, It's the journey..
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of ….
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life..
The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver..
Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds..
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no reli….
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool..
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it..
If we live truly, we shall see truly..
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family i….
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread..
I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered ag….
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these ….
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old..
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree..
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is….
We are the prisoners of ideas..
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painf….