There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Beauty rests on necessities.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
Be not the slave of your own past.
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
There is one mind common to all individual men.