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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.