Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
What is originality? It is being one’s self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
My giant goes with me wherever I go.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
The religions we call false were once true.
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
The world is all outside, it has no inside.
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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.
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto.
In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.
Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.