Isolation must precede true society..

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their pare….

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and pr….

Do your work, but do your thing..

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities..

I like people who can do things.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American..

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in..

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy..

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again..

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear..

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but th….

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists o….

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. T….

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets ….

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you sta….

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on eart….

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has….

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands..

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature..

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-g….