The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any ….

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand..

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

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..

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….

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..

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..