There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things..

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two mee….

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what w….

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding..

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician..

Art is a jealous mistress..

We do what we must, and call it by the best names..

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened..

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler v….

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing..

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temp….

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants..

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it..

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals an….

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding..

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire..

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this..

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast,….

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time,….

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great s….

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain..