Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places..

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great..

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise..

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours..

Every burned book enlightens the world..

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious..

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we….

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails..

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms..

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence ….

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible..

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs persp….

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour..

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it..

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself..

A good deal of our politics is physiological..

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods..

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent e….

Do what you're afraid to do..

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility c….

Do not follow where the path may lead..