Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Cunning is strength withheld.
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
Life is a search after power.
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.