Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die..

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from t….

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest….

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit..

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, ….

I like people who like Plato..

Genius appeals to the future..

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery..

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is might….

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding..

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better..

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do wit….

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art ….

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship..

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be u….

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are..

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the nat….

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends..

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence..

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses..