Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby...

Never read any book that is not a year old.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, ‘Thou must,’ The youth whispers, ‘I can.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it…” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one...

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

Beauty rests on necessities.

He built better than he knew; – / The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense of mind.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation.

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love –now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of...

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine

Money often costs too much.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The times are the masquerade of the eternities

The cheapness of man is every day’s tragedy

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Every word was once a poem.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man...

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.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law...