Beauty is the pilot of the young soul..

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps ….

All men in the abstract are just and good..

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit..

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection..

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges..

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation..

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate..

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly….

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind tho….

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome….

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and ….

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it..

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all..

There is always a best way of doing everything..

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence..

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode..

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good man….

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic..

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature..

Activity is contagious..