Popularity is for dolls..

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries..

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certa….

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right..

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism..

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze li….

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy gro….

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds..

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway..

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do..

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we ….

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character..

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy..

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any..

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, ….

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life..

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay..

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous ….

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when de….

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed..