Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all at...
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams
The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills,...
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Love, and you shall be loved.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.