We are wiser than we know.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
The city is recruited from the country.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
Be an opener of doors.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
