The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew? it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone? Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
The field cannot be seen from within the field.
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
There are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
No one suspects the days to be gods.
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
Pride ruined the angels.
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.