Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other ….

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know..

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not ….

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity..

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?.

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their n….

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly..

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself..

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind..

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed w….

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand..

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book,….

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier..

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature..

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation..

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual..

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations..

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay..

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee..

If the race is good, so is the place..

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience ….