Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.