Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much..

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster ….

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it..

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..

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . ..

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage..

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of….

A man cannot speak but he judges himself.

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there i….

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the gr….

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways..

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood..

Every great man is unique..

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we….

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have ….

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action..

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and ov….

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied..

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful..

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and….

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness..