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….

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no long….

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he ha….

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind….

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Mos….

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism..

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the reco….

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school..

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else..

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth..

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it..

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real c….

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in hi….

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and ….

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered ….

Our distrust is very expensive..

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too ea….

Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles the blood to the marble bone….

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are..

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way..

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon..