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I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.
The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.