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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.