We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a...

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Love, and you shall be loved.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs,...

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, vor dem man laut denken kann.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I...

Good bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first

Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Friendship,like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,...

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

We change, whether we like it or not

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end,...

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Whoso would be a man would be a nonconformist

It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task ofmeeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it...

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors...

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.