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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.
I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.
Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.
Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.