Men’s thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.
No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
That pernicious sentiment, “Our country, right or wrong.”
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now – a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies – it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
Many make the household but only one the home.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
The stiff rails were softened to swan’s-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.