Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment..

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence..

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have….

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore th….

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring t….

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food….

Language is fossil Poetry..

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials..

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish..

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea..

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds..

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read..

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own consti….

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor..

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other da….

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need….

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction..

All writing comes by the grace of God..

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty..