Children are all foreigners.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
