Nature hates calculators.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
Men are what their mothers made them.
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
The dice of God are always loaded.
What we become depends on what our fathers teach us.
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
My emancipation don’t fit your equation.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
