Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Life too near paralyses art.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
