The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of...
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house t...
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighborly conveni...
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes...
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone i...
What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.