Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme ….
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt t….
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth..
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom..
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck..
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on h….
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goe….
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases,….
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray..
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the ….
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the….
Genius is intellect constructive..
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great..
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom..
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world..
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, s….
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority..
Language is the archives of history..
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the ….
War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize..
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to ….