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….

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair s….

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds..

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour….

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years ….

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep..

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art..

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every o….

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream..

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut..

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco..

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene..

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvin….

Power educates the potentate..

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, usin….

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms..

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the m….

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbin….

Labor is God's education..