The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace..

Treat your friend as a spectacle..

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul..

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, w….

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed..

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching..

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his son….

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant..

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity,….

There is no history; only biography..

Find the journey's end in every step..

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor..

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites..

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action..

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through..

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though t….

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its pow….

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion..

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo..

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons..

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here,….