Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind c….

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that co….

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals th….

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself..

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their conten….

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is culti….

First be a good animal..

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul..

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don….

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards ….

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco..

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil..

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ….

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more..

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul..

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit..

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind tho….

There is always a best way of doing everything..

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good man….

Activity is contagious..

Every action has an ancestor of a thought..