No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
Give all to love obey thy heart.
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Culture with us ends in headache.
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Character is that which can do without success.
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
No man can have society upon his own terms.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of...
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and un...
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.