“Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.”
“There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.”
“We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.”
“Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.”
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
“We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.”
“The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.”
“To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
“Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.”
“The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.”
“Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
“You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.”
“Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.”
“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
“I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.”
“Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”
“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.”
“Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.”
“Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.”
“I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
“Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”
“How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.”