All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie ….

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do..

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight..

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human h….

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men..

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day..

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more..

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certai….

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike bef….

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in….

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number..

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution..

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.

Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, mu….

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love..

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth..

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded..

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life..

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis..

All the great ages have been ages of belief..