Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners..

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows..

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me..

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher..

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought..

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not..

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was nev….

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual….

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might..

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty..

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone..

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect wh….

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, a….

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it..

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so….

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard roun….

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul..

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth..

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks..

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, an….

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses..