Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls..

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire..

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals an….

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this..

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation..

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement..

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their conten….

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and….

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great s….

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is culti….

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted..

First be a good animal..

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of..

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time,….

The language of the street is always strong..

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain..

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul..

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast,….

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don….

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every….

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards ….