A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation..

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges..

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome….

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, th….

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly….

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence..

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, o….

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it..

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelentin….

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power..

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..

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..