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 ….

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to wo….

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet ….

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor..

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass..

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan..

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance..

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being..

The eye is the best of artists..

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone..

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, pr….

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere..

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.