Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
The best part of health is fine disposition.
Every burned book enlightens the world..
I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he ha….
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral..
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'.
We have more than we use..
Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of….
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus..
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness..
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting..
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact..
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste..
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience..
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gat….
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think..
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry..
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, ….
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock..
Let there be worse cotton and better men..
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power..