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 ….

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible..

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs persp….

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour..

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it..

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods..

Do what you're afraid to do..

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and pray….

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge..

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic..

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young..

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the dis….

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wantin….

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension..

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious ….

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances..