Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral wo….

When there is no vision, people perish..

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape.

Truth is the summit of being..

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence..

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved..

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased..

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has ha….

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances..

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong..

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be….

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat..

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young..

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view..

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things..

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial quest….

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination….

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and ….

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?.

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who sh….

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universaltha….