For everything you have missed you have gained something

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to...

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Do your work, but do your thing.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists–talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He...

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will...

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank...