Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.
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...
It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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...
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Be not simply good - be good for something.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and wit...
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, whic...
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his disea...
It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mo...