We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts..

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties..

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it,….

If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which bec….

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part..

Power and speed be hands and feet..

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion..

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions..

Wherever work is done, victory is attained..

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt..

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new t….

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me..

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in….

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them..

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all..

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time..

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud..

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers..

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity..

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such a….

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life..