Children are all foreigners..

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts….

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others..

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant..

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back..

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing….

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has i….

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance..

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities..

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare..

Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to b….

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of lif….

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy..

Every time you wink the stars move..

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales,….

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, h….

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now..

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me ….

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence..

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or s….