Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
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...
Faith never makes a confession.
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...
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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...
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and...
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