The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye an...
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by a...
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a...
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Men are what their mothers made them.
We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.
A day is a miniature eternity.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, an...
Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.