The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a cour...
Character is that which can do without success.
Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
Sorrow makes us all children again.
We never touch but at points.
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
If a man own land the land owns him.
There is properly no history only biography.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.