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 ….

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco..

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble..

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine..

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also..

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life..

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts..

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil..

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force..

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine..

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense..

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of m….

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, t….

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live..

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies..

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and th….

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, o….

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ….

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more..

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself….

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence..