"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

"The flowering of geometry."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."

"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."

"Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none."

"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

"It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him."

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.""

"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"

"Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine."

"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."

"Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do."

"A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day."

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

"The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit."

"A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue."

"Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony."

"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own."

"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion, that every globe in the remotest heaven; every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life; every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf, to the tropical forest and antediluvian coal-mine; every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong, and echo the Ten Commandments."

"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Give all to love obey thy heart."

"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."

"The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast."

"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,-'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."

"Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ..."

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."

"Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."

"There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy."

"Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial."

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it."

"For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends."

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

"If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods."