To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with….

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one..

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which i….

The virtue of books is to be readable..

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator co….

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which l….

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in tim….

It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes ba….

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the hea….

Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose….

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inve….

Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a sho….

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look b….

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he ….

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use o….

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play..

There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing..

Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the….

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it..

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes..