Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.