The highest end of government is the culture of men..

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature,….

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itsel….

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little re….

The highest revelation is that God is in every man..

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified..

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in….

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used..

The only way to have a friend is to be one..

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is ….

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature..

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle..

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it..

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents..

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity..

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways..

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself..

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak..

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man..

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal….

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun..