Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a hig...
In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly c...
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some but the principles are few. The man who g...
What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends T...
Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives...
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.