Education should be as broad as man..

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can..

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impul….

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointmen….

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, mon….

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it..

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose..

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of thing….

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see liter….

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough..

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long..

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting..

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none ….

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own….

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I….

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless..

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out..

Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protecti….

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of rec….

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil b….