All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best ….

But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lin….

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading….

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges..

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes..

Noble discontent is the path to heaven..

Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at ….

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you….

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning..

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence..

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own….

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The E….

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality..

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumst….

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of pa….

Life is as inexorable as the sea..

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards..

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable..

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country..

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home..