I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelentin….

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried..

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages..

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man..

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence..

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions ….

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enj….

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance..

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world..

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as….

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself..

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile..

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object..

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what i….

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision..

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret vir….

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand..

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other..

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome..

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as ….