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 ….

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval..

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine..

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-w….

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit..

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles..

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain hou….

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light..

Happy is the house that shelters a friend..

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as t….

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not ….

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are..

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them..

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act..

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slipper….

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the wor….

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, al….

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with somethi….

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool..

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great..

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers t….