Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
...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.
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.