Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes..
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic..
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are….
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence..
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new..
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults..
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature..
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sens….
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book..
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall ….
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in….
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom..
We boil at different degrees..
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache..
It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget..
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effo….
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with ….
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways..
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams..
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the bal….
There is more in every person's soul than we think..