The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed..

The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to….

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity..

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man..

A fly is as untamable as a hyena..

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule..

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes..

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has si….

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments..

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in..

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought l….

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him..

When half-gods go The gods arrive..

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society..

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius..

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the….

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is swee….

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other..

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die..

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think..