Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament..

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the ….

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to ….

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray..

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world..

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize..

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases,….

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, s….

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the ….

Genius is intellect constructive..

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority..

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his powe….

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the….

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done..

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, ….

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you..

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great..

Language is the archives of history..

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance….

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius..

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom..