There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything...
Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, —The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows
But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted...
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translate...
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instrumen...
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fa...
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping...