Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wi...
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the qual...
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according...
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.