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

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild..

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by suffer….

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason..

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in ….

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us..

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose..

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexi….

Never utter the truism but live it among men..

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gle….

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sy….

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all..

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the figh….

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born..

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day..

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of his….

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character..

Manners are the happy ways of doing things..

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, i….

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool..

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk..