My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but n...
Die Einfachheit und Nacktheit des primitiven Menschen hatte wenigstens den Vorteil, daß er sich in der Natur als Gast fühlte. War er durch Nahrung und Schlaf erquickt, dann dachte er wieder ans Weiter...
City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most s...
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpecte...
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.
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...
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...
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...
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.