Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
There is a crack in everything God has made.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.
Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.
When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat men to whom a crises which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes as graceful and beloved as a...
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him...
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong