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!].

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise..

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it..

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; prope….

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity..

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast..

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He ….

If a man owns land, the land owns him..

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself..

We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it could be satisfactorily….

The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air..

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the percep….

Invention breeds invention..

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on..

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live..

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole..

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide..