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..

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land..

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn..

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols..

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us..

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself..

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome..

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs..

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? W….

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equato….

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspi….

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not s….

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee..

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered aga….

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and m….

Wait, and thy soul shall speak..

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and ….

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in….