Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils.
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.