The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.
The world exists for the education of each man.
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.
The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.
We may be partial, but Fate is not.
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
Find the journey’s end in every step.
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.