It is not length of life, but depth of life..

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them..

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward..

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it..

Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what wa….

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb..

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world….

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is ….

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no….

In good writing, words become one with things..

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall k….

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the b….

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore.".

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause..

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing t….

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting m….

Each moment of the year has its own beauty..

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart..

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or….

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . .….