Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to b….
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails..
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible..
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. T….
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in..
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places..
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours..
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer..
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least….
Do your work, but do your thing..
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and pr….
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower..
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask..
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object..
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen..
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment..
Quotation confesses inferiority..
Isolation must precede true society..
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair..
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their pare….
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities..