Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but….

Man is the dwarf of himself..

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal..

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret ex….

There is one mind common to all individual men.

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high….

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisibl….

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it ….

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father..

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without..

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself..

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the langua….

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused..

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold..

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are alw….

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide..

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today..

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for servic….

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out….

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day..

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry..