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

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every….

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement..

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of..

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never..

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional..

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted..

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and….

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation..

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries..

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces..

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart..

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace..

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends..

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace ….

Beauty without expression is boring..

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dress….

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed..

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both..

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and other….

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature..