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….

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes..

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats ….

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places..

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great..

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours..

Every burned book enlightens the world..

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we….

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails..

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms..

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence ….