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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
I admire answers to which no answers can be made.
If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
It is with a good book as it is with good company.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
All science is transcendental or else passes away.
No institution will be better than the institutor.
We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
We are all wise for other people, none for himself.
The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.