“The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.”
“A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.”
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
“I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.”
“'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.”
“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”
“We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.”
“The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.”
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
“My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.”
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
“Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.”
“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.”
“The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.”
“Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.”
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”
“Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
“Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”
“The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.”
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
“I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.”
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.”
“A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.”