Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the persona….

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also..

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts..

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense..

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine..

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine..

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it..

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection..

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men..

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of m….

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble..

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, t….

All men in the abstract are just and good..

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves..

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature..

The shot heard round the world..

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life..

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….