I unsettle all things..

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice..

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success..

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripple….

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to….

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable..

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means..

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten..

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman..

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomac….

The primary wisdom is intuition..

Everything is made of one hidden stuff..

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn the….

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new..

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming..

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise..

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature..

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-f….

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of ….

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person wh….