I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment..

Eyes...They speak all languages..

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames ….

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all ….

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim..

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of p….

A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a trans….

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the want….

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one wit….

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own..

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty..

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade..

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often….

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given ….

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it..

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and b….

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all consi….

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rat….

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich va….

Look out! Behind you!.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of….