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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.
Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.