Conformity is the ape of harmony..

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay..

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit..

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder..

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes..

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it..

Books are for nothing but to inspire.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and stre….

Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again..

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone..

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to ….

In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fe….

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives..

A man is a god in ruins..

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry..

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men..

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a governme….

Calmness is always godlike..

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense..

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual..

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing..