Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temp….
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow..
The affirmative of affirmatives... is love..
We do what we must, and call it by the best names..
Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind..
There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences..
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not..
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her..
Art is a jealous mistress..
When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat..
The first point of courtesy must always be truth..
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons..
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life..
The order of things consents to virtue..
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys..
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the ….
Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee..
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes..
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he ins….
Culture is one thing and varnish is another..
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed bef….