To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, t….

The world globes itself in a drop of dew..

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in ….

The eye of prudence may never shut..

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders..

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together..

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it..

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, ar….

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other..

We are all wise for other people, none for himself..

Under every deep a lower deep opens..

Fame is proof that the people are gullible..

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can….

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish….

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting..

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another..

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain….

We are wiser than we know..

There is no true orator who is not a hero..

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrati….