We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of ….

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue..

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us..

Each mind has its own method..

No man can have society upon his own terms..

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendo….

Life is a search after power..

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the St….

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races..

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals….

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; wi….

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals..

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and ….

The soul circumscribes all things..

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window..

Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.….

Great men exist that there might be greater men..

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously..

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and ….

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere..

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man..