What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him ….

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard..

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends..

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary..

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we lea….

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace ….

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me..

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacl….

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quota….

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment..

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind c….

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed..

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream..

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries..

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both..

Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale f….

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that co….

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me..

The poor are only they who feel poor..

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he..

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by pr….