Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow..

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book..

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases..

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but ….

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the….

Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, wh….

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration..

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things..

The first wealth is health..

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity..

Tis good-will makes intelligence..

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none..

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself..

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains..

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of We….

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong ….

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises..

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative..

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded w….

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence an….

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and ….