Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die..

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar..

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin..

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax..

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them.….

By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert ….

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market..

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to ….

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them..

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near..

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort..

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is alway….

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know th….

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great..

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light..

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol..

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man i….

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them..

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one..

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks..

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity..