Occupation: Essayist Birth: May 25, 1803 Death: April 27, 1882
Nature is saturated with Deity..
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly ….
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept ….
Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination….
Every man is a new method..
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one..
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence..
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and ….
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial quest….
There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribabl….
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view..
We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universaltha….
Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be….
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things..
When there is no vision, people perish..
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evenin….
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who sh….
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the….
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong..
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral wo….