There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine..

Truth is the summit of being..

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved..

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons….

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat..

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede any….

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper..

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased..

Nature is saturated with Deity..

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly ….

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept ….

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature..

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination….

Every man is a new method..

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one..

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence..

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and ….

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial quest….

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribabl….

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view..

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes..