Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other..

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in….

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but….

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, c….

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code..

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom..

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of th….

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived..

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain..

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembran….

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the….

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its m….

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society..

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquil….

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, Wi….

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem..

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied..

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms..

The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles..

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act ….