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….

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them..

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature..

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that i….

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack o….

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberrie….

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach..

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship..

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort..

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth l….

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player..

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind..

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we….

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous..

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances..

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splend….

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must al….

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and ….

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his fa….

The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural go….

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man….