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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awo...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is...more

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of...more

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...more

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars, but ...more

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That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats is first strength...more