Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs..
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have s….
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times..
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that….
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else..
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built no….
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost..
Skill to do comes of doing..
I would study, I would know, I would admire forever..
Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only ….
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance whic….
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest..
Keep your friendships in repair..
That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily..
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors..
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use..
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man..
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are ….
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of….
The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility es….
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!].