It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimente...
Things do not change we change.
The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.
We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They hav...
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality...
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa...
In short, all good things are wild and free.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his h...
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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