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

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..

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..

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..

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..