Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
Those who work much do not work hard.
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth.
A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Count your age with friends but not with years.
New earths, new themes expect us.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.