The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God’s creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Rest is for the dead.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter’s gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people’s disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster’s eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.