Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a...
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
Art is a delayed echo.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough...
If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
The worship of power is an old religion.