The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain..

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons..

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it..

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars..

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual..

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much..

Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one..

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty..

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable cond….

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accide….

Pride ruined the angels..

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences….

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict..

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise..

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment..

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster ….

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside do….

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edg….

I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happi….

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding..

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and th….