You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor..

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried..

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed..

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more..

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health..

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition..

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance..

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the f….

Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side..

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite..

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful po….

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life..

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose f….

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed..

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a se….

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a pic….

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing..

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other..

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires..

All high beauty has a moral element in it..

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in..