The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
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...
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
To be great is to be misunderstood.