There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that fee….

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow..

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life..

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations..

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a m….

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation..

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way….

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward..

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to ….

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks..

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the….

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work..

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it i….

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, t….

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail..

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though b….

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, ….

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lov….

The hero is suffered to be himself..

Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is ….

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world ov….