For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
I like people who can do things.
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
Tart, cathartic virtue.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.