Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it..

Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many te….

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence..

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are the….

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free..

New York is a sucked orange..

New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which m….

Thought makes everything fit for use..

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century..

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which….

Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak wil….

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generat….

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly..

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all hi….

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character..

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house..

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the e….

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a m….

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far..

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if y….

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his ….