Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson BACK
- For every minute you are
- Do not go where the
- Make your own Bible. Select
- Is it so bad, then,
- The only person you are
- To be yourself in a
- The earth laughs in flowers.
- What you do speaks so
- The purpose of life is
- Whatever you do, you need
- It is easy in the
- Finish each day and be
- It is not the length
- Live in the sunshine, swim
- When it is dark enough,
- It is one of the
- Always do what you are
- The glory of friendship is
- Dare to live the life
- All I have seen teaches
- What lies behind us and
- Beauty is the mark God
- The reason why any one
- on thoreau for not a
- Some men, at the approach
- Popularity is for dolls.
- The mob is man voluntarily
- Do not tell me of
- Surely nobody would be a
- The hero is he who
- By virtue of this science
- The wonder is always new
- To speak truly, few adult
- Not gold but only men
- Imagination is not a talent
- The State must follow, and
- Proportion is almost impossible to
- All natural objects make a
- If a man's eye
- A foolish consistency is the
- The resources of the scholar
- Most people, who have quit
- For everything you have missed,
- Let the reader find that
- The corruption of man is
- We see the world piece
- The good rain, like a
- But there are higher secrets
- Envy is the tax which
- We are such lovers of
- Cupid is a casuist, a
- What omniscience has music! So
- In dealing with the State,
- We are of different opinions
- No nation has produced anything
- Shall we then judge a
- I shun father and mother
- When I first open my
- Art is the need to
- A man must thank his
- Do not be too timid
- A great man scarcely knows
- Go into one of our
- Perpetual modernness is the measure
- Another success is the post
- Every rational creature has all
- People who wash much have
- We change whether we like
- We do what we must,
- Who hears me, who understands
- A cheerful intelligent face is
- The only compensation which war
- Every man has a vocation.
- I dream of a better
- We do not live an
- Romeo, of dead, should be
- A beautiful woman is a
- Knowledge is the antidote to
- A man in the wrong
- So in writing, there is
- Invention breeds invention.
- The book written against fame
- The narrow sectarian cannot read
- Give all to love; Obey
- A man is known by
- Things are pretty, graceful, rich,
- Every great institution is the
- I suppose every old scholar
- Great is paint; nay, God
- If two or three persons
- If a man is at
- He who would be a
- Ability without honor has no
- When a dog is chasing
- Life wastes itself whilst we
- I like people who like
- Every word which is used
- It is the ignorant and
- Enthusiasm is one of the
- Activity is contagious.
- We may like well to
- Every mind has a new
- No picture of life can
- The world is all outside,
- We legislate against forestalling and
- There are days when the
- It is the eye which
- Bad times have a scientific
- The creation of a thousand
- Whom God has put asunder,
- Men over forty are no
- Night dreams trace on Memory'
- I cannot go to the
- Real men don't conform
- Love and you shall be
- It is in bad taste,"
- Truth is beautiful within and
- Happy is he who looks
- I am ashamed to think
- Harmony of aim, not identity
- A seashell should be the
- The eye is the first
- The exceptional life depends not
- The love of novels is
- Things have their laws as
- Any work looks wonderful to
- There are eyes, to be
- The Italians are fond of
- Every man is an infinitely
- To this military attitude of
- A man's wife has
- How shall a man escape
- Skepticism is unbelief in cause
- Undoubtedly we have no questions
- The power which resides in
- It is one light which
- The craft with which the
- Real action is in silent
- There are men too superior
- In the presence of nature,
- We must be our own
- My life is for itself
- Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit
- Men such as they are,
- Make yourself necessary to the
- Nature is saturated with Deity.
- An action is the perfection
- The whole of heraldry and
- A sect or party is
- What a searching preacher of
- Go face the fire at
- Practice makes perfect the sooner
- I believe it is the
- I like to have a
- How cunningly nature hides every
- Wherever there is failure, there
- Practice radical humility." He (or
- I didn't find my
- We must be very suspicious
- For what avail the plough
- For the most part, only
- Women see through Claude Lorraines.
- The affirmative class monopolize the
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron
- An orator or author is
- But do your work, and
- Enthusiasm is the engine of
- Good criticism is very rare
- I wiped away the weeds
- Wit makes its own welcome,
- A great part of courage
- I do not hesitate to
- Cities degrade us by magnifying
- Nature is thoroughly mediate. It
- In our definitions, we grope
- In a world of infinite
- The use of natural history
- Life is unnecessarily long. Moments
- When the gods come among
- It happens to us once
- Love is our highest word
- Conversation is an art in
- Some will always be above
- To be great is to
- Times of heroism are generally
- We stand against fate, as
- What potent blood hath modest
- All stealing is comparative. If
- Science is nothing but the
- Nothing is more disgusting than
- Sport is the bloom and
- Why should we assume the
- Painting was called silent poetry
- Every natural fact is a
- The heroic soul does not
- Men in all ways are
- To give money to a
- Our age is retrospective. It
- Genius Borrows nobly.
- The great majority of men
- It is curious that Christianity,
- Nothing great was ever achieved
- I am the lover of
- Meek young men grow up
- No power of genius has
- The colleges, while they provide
- Genius detects through the fly,
- It is hard to mesmerize
- Every advantage has its tax.
- It is frivolous to fix
- No change of circumstances can
- The spirit of the world,
- I confess myself utterly at
- When the night is darkest,
- You are constantly invited to
- But dare rather to quit
- The height of the pinnacle
- For every benefit you receive
- If you cannot be free
- The walking of Man is
- Cut these words and they
- People suffer all their life
- Life is in short cycles
- The present is an edifice
- People do not deserve to
- An empire is an immense
- The public values the invention
- Slavery it is that makes
- The secret of the world
- The highest Beauty should be
- We learn geology the morning
- Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and
- Speak the affirmative; emphasize your
- The religion which is to
- The lover never sees personal
- The secrets of life are
- We honor the rich because
- The hand that rounded Peter'
- Friends should be like books,
- If the red slayer think
- There is nothing we value
- If the East loves infinity,
- O friend, never strike sail
- Fate is unpenetrated causes.
- Nothing astonishes men so much
- Our faith comes in moments;
- The disease with which the
- Emancipation is the demand of
- Nature is a rag merchant,
- If in the least particular,
- Accuracy is essential to beauty.
- The wonder is that we
- All is a riddle, and
- The good husband finds method
- The child realizes to every
- We are disgusted by gossip;
- I pack my trunk, embrace
- I like the church, I
- Society, to be sure, does
- The world always had the
- No performance is worth loss
- The man is only half
- A poem, a sentence, causes
- Culture is one thing and
- Solitude is naught and society
- The eyes of men converse
- Hither rolls the storm of
- The secret of culture is
- The rule for hospitality and
- What is civilization? I answer,
- It is easy to live
- An institution is the lengthened
- Make the most of yourself,
- Nor count compartments of the
- All things are known to
- The silence that accepts merit
- A great licentiousness treads on
- Too busy with the crowded
- A part of fate is
- This knot of nature is
- Four snakes gliding up and
- You think me the child
- The merit of those who
- He cumbers himself never about
- Human beings cannot endure the
- Pretension may sit still, but
- Today is a king in
- What is indispensable to inspiration? ...
- Every friend whom not thy
- In politics and in trade,
- There is a relation between
- In different hours, a man
- We thirst for approbation, yet
- If you criticize a fine
- The lord is the peasant
- Our young people are diseased
- In the sublimest flights of
- Tis the good reader that
- All life is a nap.
- A man must be clothed
- You must hear the birds
- It is not what talents
- All loss, all pain, is
- There is nothing in history
- The first and last lesson
- To clothe the fiery thoughtIn
- The young man reveres men
- The lover of nature is
- So shall we come to
- Nothing is at last sacred
- When I behold a rich
- I could better eat with
- If I am the devil'
- Every mind must know the
- Two may talk and one
- I give you joy of
- The reason why all men
- Never utter the truism but
- Life is very narrow. Bring
- The wise man always throws
- Lovers should guard their strangeness.
- We don't grow old.
- tomorrow is a new day
- You need someone who can
- Let there be worse cotton
- Is all literature eavesdropping, and
- The religion that is afraid
- The populace drags down the
- Imitation cannot go above its
- Circumstance does not make the
- If the stars should appear
- The years teach much which
- In Nature, all is useful,
- The piety of the Hebrew
- A man is the facade
- The aristocrat is the democrat
- The Transcendentalist adopts the whole
- There will always be in
- Natural science sharpens the discrimination.
- We live in a system
- Begin and proceed on a
- Of cheerfulness, or a good
- The Indian who was laid
- A determined man, by his
- Every violation of truth is
- Every noble activity makes room
- All the mistakes I make
- In Haydn's oratorios, the
- The wise know that foolish
- Let a man then know
- Build a better mousetrap and
- Look sharply after your own
- There is really no insurmountable
- To wade in marshes and
- I will not hide my
- If you are wise, you
- The fox has many tricks.
- Behold the Sea,The opaline,
- The foundation of culture, as
- Science, Nature, O, I've
- Be sure then to read
- A mob cannot be a
- We flee away from cities,
- We must be courteous to
- All the thoughts of a
- The interminable forests should become
- At the gates of the
- Doubt not, O poet, but
- For splendor, there must somewhere
- As there is a use
- A friend is Janus faced:
- It makes a great difference
- To the young mind every
- Wherever we go, whatever we
- Respect the child. Wait and
- Truth is too simple for
- Living without Laughing isn't
- What I must do is
- We are taught by great
- Life is comic or pitiful
- The boxer's ring is
- The efforts which we make
- Law of Contrariness: Our chief
- Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is
- We are imprisoned in life
- There are men whose language
- Nothing can be preserved that
- Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments
- A child reminds us that
- Words are finite expressions of
- Anger is that powerful internal
- It is the last lesson
- There is no privacy that
- In our large cities, the
- The greatest man in history
- It is the same among
- Whenever you are sincerely pleased
- The genius of the Platonists,
- If you would know what
- There is no doctrine of
- There are twenty ways of
- Let us replace sentimentalism by
- History a biography of a
- we pity our fathers for
- The poem is a confession
- Most of the shadows of
- A sage is the instructor
- Manners are very communicable: men
- We animate what we can
- The uses of travel are
- Thought is the seed of
- There is a third silent
- If the colleges were better,
- We hear eagerly every thought
- An ounce of action is
- As soon as there is
- Genial manners are good, and
- Life is wasted in the
- And what greater calamity can
- Give the slave the least
- In every man's memory,
- Must we always talk for
- The household is a school
- The world is the perennial
- The German intellect wants the
- Guard well your spare moments.
- The crime which bankrupts men
- Good breeding, a union of
- True wit never made us
- The chief mourner does not
- I see my trees repair
- Line in Nature is not
- Culture opens the sense of
- I am ashamed to see
- I find that the Americans
- Who shall set a limit
- If you tax too high,
- What you do thunders above
- All infractions of love and
- When a man becomes cultivated,
- I do not wish to
- Higher than the question of
- The reverence for the deeds
- Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
- There is no beautifier of
- Vanity costs money, labor, horses,
- When at last in a
- The soul is no traveller;
- Virtue alone is sweet society,
- Though your views are in
- Let us take our bloated
- Do you love me? Means
- Do not shut up the
- The Nonchalance of boys who
- When a man says to
- The field cannot be seen
- A good indignation makes an
- Life only avails, not the
- The unique impression of Jesus
- The betrothed and accepted lover
- Great genial power, one would
- In this distribution of functions,
- I find it a great
- There is a principle which
- The reason of idleness and
- Our first mistake is the
- The scholar is that man
- The world of men show
- American mind a wilderness of
- When the literary class betray
- Manners are the happy ways
- There is always safety in
- Skepticism? Yes, but a saint
- My gentleman gives the law
- Better be a nettle in
- The cheapness of man is
- Isolation must precede true society.
- Art is a jealous mistress;
- Each age, it is found,
- The unbelief of the age
- We forget ourselves and our
- I can find my biography
- A poem is made up
- In spite of warnings, change
- I am not so foolish
- There is no architectCan build
- There are many virtues in
- Virtues are, in the popular
- One single idea may have
- There is an optical illusion
- Only that mind draws me
- Every person has his or
- Life will show you masks
- It is God in you
- Nature hates calculators.
- In excited conversation we have
- Consistency is the bugbear that
- The first in time and
- Morality is the object of
- Every sunset brings the promise
- The ornaments of our homes
- When half gods go The
- You have first an instinct,
- The artists must be sacrificed
- All writing comes by the
- God said, I am tired
- The whole secret of the
- Liberty is a slow fruit.
- The world still wants its
- If we consider what happens
- But genius looks forward: the
- I am ready to die
- He takes men out of
- Without a rich heart, wealth
- Luckily for us, now that
- Religion is to do right.
- One of the illusions of
- Of immortality, the soul, when
- It is about your outlook
- Men lose their tempers in
- With thought, with the ideal,
- The religion of England is
- I should as soon think
- Life is a search after
- Every man is a consumer,
- The astonishment of life is
- The stars awaken a certain
- tis a short sight to
- The society of the energetic
- I like sayers of no
- Fear is an instructor of
- If I could put my
- To educate the wise man,
- When he is pushed, tormented,
- No man can help another
- The virtues of society are
- Many photographers think they are
- Wise cultivated, genial conversation is
- The best political economy is
- well said red jacket to
- Continual failure is a road
- Improve your spare moments and
- Whence, then, this worship of
- You take a weakness and
- He who loves the bristle
- The Soul rules over matter.
- Eloquence is the appropriate organ
- Be lord of a day,
- Universities are of course hostile
- What's a book? Everything
- Where the banana grows man
- Had I but written as
- The House...She lays her
- What lies behind you and
- Friendship should be surrounded with
- A man should carry nature
- There is no strong performance
- Man is a stream whose
- And what fastens attention, in
- So far as a person
- There can never be deep
- Music causes us to think
- Society everywhere is in conspiracy
- Bonaparte knew but one merit,
- The French woman says,'I
- We do not quite forgive
- The hearing ear is always
- The evolution of a highly
- Live in the sunshine.
- I know and see too
- I have only one doctrine,
- The time is coming when
- Fine manners need the support
- Why should all virtue work
- Every man has his own
- The rain has spoiled the
- We are very near to
- The longest wave is quickly
- Behind every individual closes organization;
- Beware of jokes from which
- Power is in nature the
- Although knaves win in every
- Things refuse to be mismanaged
- We are the children of
- A child is a curly,
- Men are lenses through which
- The influence of fine scenery,
- When we see a special
- Difference of opinion is the
- It was a pleasure and
- Truth is always present; it
- So much of our time
- I like people who can
- The State is our neighbors;
- The first farmer was the
- Thus inevitably does the universe
- As we refine, our checks
- Every day, the sun; and,
- It is my desire, in
- Wisdom is like electricity. There
- By necessity, by proclivity, and
- As sunbeams stream through liberal
- Fate, then, is a name
- I am so much a
- We fly to beauty as
- Sorrow makes us all children
- For all men live by
- He only is a well
- His heart was as great
- All men are poets at
- In science we have to
- It is impossible for a
- Every individual nature has its
- Contemporary American psychiatristIt is a
- We do not make a
- In dreams we are true
- Eloquence shows the power and
- The thing done avails, and
- Convert life into truth.
- Man is physical as well
- The health of the eye
- A cynic can chill and
- Physical force has no value,
- Take the place and attitude
- In every society some men
- Free should be the scholar
- Yet time and space are
- The hero is not fed
- The ornament of a house
- The good lawyer is not
- A Gothic cathedral affirms that
- My book should smell of
- in the woods we return
- I look on that man
- The horseman serves the horse,
- Why needs a man be
- An artist spends himself like
- We must hold a man
- Whatever events in progress shall
- Other men are lenses through
- The shows of the day,
- The key to the age
- Our best history is still
- Every mind must make its
- The highest end of government
- Doing well is the result
- As long as our civilization
- He is great who is
- Pride is handsome, economical; pride
- The house praises the carpenter.
- We are by nature observers,
- Not in his goals but
- Let us answer a book
- Great believers are always reckoned
- How much of human life
- Genius appeals to the future.
- My evening visitors, if they
- These times of ours are
- When friendships are real, they
- One idea lights a thousand
- Manners require time, and nothing
- What goes on around you...
- The truth, the hope of
- Talents differ; all is well
- Between cultivated minds the first
- There is a tendency in
- I believe that our own
- Beauty is the moment of
- Honor and fortune exist for
- It is said, no man
- To fill the hourthat is
- We see God face to
- All the fairy tales of
- They have seen but half
- The soul refuses limits and
- Truth, and goodness, and beauty,
- The less a man thinks
- The instinct of the people
- Intellect annuls fate. So far
- Nature is sanative, refining, elevating.
- Our opinions of the world,
- Senators and presidents have climbed
- Trust your instinct to the
- I am thankful for small
- A man is not to
- Where dwells the religion? Tell
- The miracles of genius always
- The unstable estimates of men
- He in whom the love
- Nature, through all her kingdoms,
- The finest and noblest ground
- Idealism sees the world in
- If a man knows the
- Announced by all the trumpets
- I hate the prostitution of
- Virtue runs before the muse,
- Rhodora! If the sages ask
- Art is evidence of our
- God builds his temple in
- Scholarship is to be created
- Almost every man we meet
- Freedom is not the right
- The orator is thereby an
- For each new morning with
- I hate quotations. Tell me
- The Sun is the sole
- That for which Paul lived
- The stupidity of men always
- But I shall hear without
- Our spontaneous action is always
- The trail of the serpent
- Now that is the wisdom
- There is no event greater
- Our age is very cheap
- Every man is not so
- The eye is the painter
- Always the seer is a
- Sooner or later that which
- There is one mind common
- There are always two parties;
- Truth has already ceased to
- The eye of prudence may
- When believers and unbelievers live
- Our reliance on the physician
- Every man is a new
- Defect in manners is usually
- Good poetry could not have
- Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic
- In strict science, all persons
- The sentence must also contain
- The foolish man wonders at
- The perception of the comic
- Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Flowers are the earth laughing.
- The evils of popular government
- When the eyes say one
- There are faces so fluid
- All mankind love a lover.
- Go where he will, the
- I knew a witty physician
- Research is not seeing what
- There never was a strong
- Nothing external to you has
- Eloquence must be grounded on
- Throughout the ages there have
- A man cannot utter two
- Coal lay in ledges under
- Use what language you will,
- If men would avoid that
- I must be myself. I
- A moment is a concentrated
- Character is higher than intellect.
- A friend is a person
- The imaginative faculty of the
- Don't waste life in
- All science is transcendental or
- Our chief want in life
- Our impatience of miles, when
- The book of nature is
- Tomorrow is a new day.
- Every mind is different; and
- The soul knows only the
- Of all wit's uses,
- We live in succession, in
- Spirit, that made those heroes
- Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds
- The constructive intellect [genius] produces
- All great men come out
- The dice of God are
- Nothing can be colder than
- There is not a piece
- God has delegated himself to
- Every man passes his life
- What we commonly call man,
- The God who made New
- Nature is a language and
- Cannot we let [children] be
- We shall one day learn
- Let us draw a lesson
- God will have life to
- A man should learn to
- Each man has his own
- Herein is the explanation of
- Man is the end of
- Every revolution was first a
- There the great Planter plants
- The light by which we
- Why need I volumes, if
- Calmness is always godlike.
- Let the realist not mind
- But it is a cold,
- Friendship requires more time than
- Go oft to the house
- In the death of my
- Every individual man has a
- The eye obeys exactly the
- Man is made of the
- The true ship is the
- Every man supposes himself not
- Of course, money will do
- Crossing a bare common, in
- Power dwells with cheerfulness.
- New York is a sucked
- War educates the senses, calls
- But we need not fear
- You shall have joy, or
- The best lightning rod for
- The whole world is an
- How can we speak of
- The art of conversation, or
- Ennui shortens life, and bereaves
- Judicious praise is to children
- A man's action is
- We commonly say that the
- Though thou loved her as
- A vivid thought brings the
- The world is so beautiful
- We have a great deal
- A feeble man can see
- The word Miracle, as pronounced
- As I walked in the
- Men achieve a certain greatness
- In old persons, when thus
- There is a certain satisfaction
- Your work should be in
- The universe does not jest
- THE POET A moody child
- What we do not call
- No one has a prosperity
- The world is always childish,
- We do not yet possess
- The true thrift is always
- A beautiful behavior is better
- When the vain speaker has
- That which we do not
- Its the not the Destination,
- A man should not go
- Our life is not so
- The life of man is
- We are wiser than we
- The adventitious beauty of poetry
- The next best thing to
- We but half express ourselves,
- I think it is the
- The effect of the indulgence
- As to methods, there may
- He who is not everyday
- Few and mean as my
- The best of life is
- I honor health as the
- If the vast and the
- Every man alone is sincere.
- Whilst the rights of all
- In every landscape, the point
- What school, college, or lecture
- In these divine pleasures permitted
- Happy is the house that
- In England every man you
- Every vice is only an
- To Be is to live
- My good hoe as it
- After you have pumped your
- Motion or change, and identity
- Nothing can be more delicate
- Immitation is suicide.
- Do not craze yourself with
- The virtue of books is
- Truth is beautiful, without doubt;
- Coal is a portable climate.
- The basis of good manners
- Every great achievement is the
- We imperatively require a perception
- A man is a god
- The imitator dooms himself to
- Our high respect for a
- The domestic man, who loves
- Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do
- I take this evanescence and
- The relations of the soul
- Infancy conforms to nobody: all
- You cannot do wrong without
- The wings of Time are
- Men are like Geneva watches
- As a man thinketh, so
- Wherever work is done, victory
- The forest waves, the morning
- Put God in your debt.
- If you know you are
- Write it on your heart
- We live by our imagination,
- He who loves goodness harbors
- Who is he that shall
- The only sin is limitation.
- In America and Europe, the
- Every man is a divinity
- Why should not we have
- Why should we fear to
- Every man believes that he
- I have heard that whoever
- The wise and just man
- All public facts are to
- When you were born you
- An eye can threaten like
- Pines a thousand years old.
- Beauty is the virtue of
- Why should you renounce your
- Whenever the average intellect of
- There is no true orator
- Insist on your life, never
- That which we call sin
- Be an opener of doors
- Oh, be my friend, and
- Think me not unkind and
- Self reliance is its aversion.
- Never mind the ridicule, never
- Genius is the power to
- The common experience is, that
- Knowledge is the knowing that
- There are two classes of
- a good reader makes a
- there is no planet, sun,
- People destined to meet will
- The intelligent have a right
- The day is always his,
- Children and savages use only
- I appeal now to the
- How painful to give a
- The senses interfere everywhere, and
- To the body and mind
- Every day, a little sadder,
- Truth is the summit of
- The way to mend the
- All the elements, whose aid
- America is another name for
- Every day brings a ship,
- Do you see that kitten
- The magnanimous know very well
- The great poet makes us
- There is more difference in
- When I walk up the
- There is a capacity of
- O Lord! Unhappy is the
- The power men possess to
- Let a man learn to
- Science corrects the old creeds,
- And truly it demands something
- Governments have their origin in
- Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere,
- A cheerful, intelligent face is
- Ah Fate, cannot a man
- A wise writer will feel
- Rings and jewels are not
- Tragedy is in the eye
- The power of a man
- Genius always finds itself a
- The only gift is a
- All men in the abstract
- In vain produced, all rays
- Who leaves the pine tree,
- The intellect searches out the
- We have more than we
- Yourself a newborn bard of
- But speak the truth, and
- Society is a masked ball,
- There is, in all great
- Really, all things and persons
- A character is like an
- Thoughts rule the world.
- To eat bread is one
- The heroic cannot be the
- I see it only that
- What is life but the
- The sun shines and warms
- Little thinks, in the field,
- I quote another man's
- Hast thou named all the
- The great man is not
- For you, o broker, there
- All life is an experiment.
- Society acquires new arts, and
- I like a man who
- Death comes to all, but
- Repose and cheerfulness is the
- For the resolute and determined,
- Plants are the young of
- Cities give not the human
- You send your child to
- If thou fill thy brain
- We are all inventors, each
- Let not the author eat
- Never read any book that
- I am a part and
- Commit a crime, and the
- Live well, learn plenty, laugh
- How beautiful to have the
- Dear to us are those
- Stay at home in your
- What is well done, I
- Any extraordinary degree of beauty
- Our culture, therefore, must not
- When he has seen, that
- That man is idle who
- If thought makes free, so
- The difference between talent and
- To me, however, the question
- Every really able man, in
- We mark with light in
- We will walk on our
- Christianity taught the capacity, the
- For, truly speaking, whoever provokes
- The need for a rational
- A chief event of life
- It sometimes occurs that memory
- Live in the fields, and
- Love should make joy; but
- Logic is the procession or
- Nature is not always tricked
- Of the Shaker society, it
- No man has ever had
- But hospitality must be for
- A day for toil, an
- There is one other reason
- We aim above the mark
- Sanity is very rare; every
- Nothing can work damage to
- This valley is the only
- If you put a chain
- The sign and credentials of
- Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings
- The scholar was not raised
- There is the illusion of
- And in cases where profound
- Women see better than men.
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime
- Circles, like the soul, are
- Work and thou canst escape
- The best effort of a
- Knowledge is when you learn
- Passion rebuilds the world for
- The best conversation is rare.
- Power ceases in the instant
- Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes
- Light is the first of
- It is time to be
- The finest poems of the
- Every ship is a romantic
- Society always consists in the
- There is simply the rose;
- The action of the soul
- A sympathetic person is placed
- In the woods too, a
- A man must keep an
- A garden has this advantage,
- In good company, the individuals
- Happy will that house be
- My companion assumes to know
- Who can . . . guess how much
- History is full, down to
- For each thorn, there's
- The last change in our
- Great conversation ... requires an absolute
- The Yankee is one who,
- The ancestor of every action
- Then, though I prize my
- In eloquence, the great triumphs
- Strong men greet war, tempest,
- And the glory of character
- We are made aware that
- Self love is, in almost
- How many attractions for us
- An answer in words is
- Not out of those, on
- It does not hurt weak
- Culture implies all which gives
- We are ashamed of our
- There is a genius of
- Explore, and explore. Be neither
- All my best thoughts were
- This time, like all times,
- Our desires presage the capacities
- Men succeed when they realize
- I cannot find language of
- Science does not know its
- To a physician, each man,
- For it is only the
- Pride ruined the angels.
- There will be an agreement
- Every man should let out
- Always scorn appearances and you
- The world makes way for
- Only to youth will spring
- No matter how much faculty
- The regular course of studies,
- All ages of belief have
- I think the vice of
- My doom and my strength
- Slavery is an institution for
- Time, which shows so vacant,
- Be as beneficent as the
- The cruelest foe is a
- Conversation is the laboratory and
- Enthusiasm is the height of
- Truth has not single victories;
- You have a place to
- The aspect of nature is
- Every word was once a
- If we must accept fate
- The have a good friend
- Man is a shrewd inventor,
- To make knowledge valuable, you
- The teaching of politics is
- There can be no high
- The first thing a great
- How much better when the
- We are born believing. A
- A breath of will blows
- Every actual State is corrupt.
- Courage charms us, because it
- A farm is a good
- Power obeys reality, and not
- We all wish to be
- There is always a best
- The true philosopher and the
- Nature turns all malfaisance to
- Every roof is agreeable to
- In the history of the
- Faith makes us, and not
- I believe in Eternity. I
- Love not the flower they
- We fancy men are individuals;
- The growth of the intellect
- Every thought is public,Every
- Nor knowest thou what argument
- In our fine arts, not
- Out of sleeping a waking,
- All history is a record
- We take care of our
- The babe in arms is
- I like the silent church
- No man ever prayed heartily
- Tis good will makes intelligence.
- Great geniuses have the shortest
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity,
- Yet some natures are too
- Wherever there is power there
- The secret is the answer
- The universe is represented in
- Men are better than this
- The Englishman who has lost
- But, if a man would
- The progress of religion is
- What torments of grief you
- Let a man attain the
- Do not follow where the
- Don't be a cynic
- Thefts never enrich; alms never
- There is one topic peremptorily
- The frost which kills the
- We are not free to
- The greatest discoveries are those
- The way to learn German,
- The history of mankind interests
- The crystal sphere of thought
- The case wouldn't be
- When nature removes a great
- Plant your DREAMS and miracles
- Do not require a description
- The blazing evidence of immortality
- As men get on in
- When science is learned in
- My hours are peaceful centuries.
- What if you do fail,
- I would put myself in
- It is much better to
- Human society is made up
- The world is plentiful with
- War disorganizes, but it is
- Every evil to which we
- Profound sincerity is the only
- The end of the human
- The flowering of civilization is
- Humility is the secret of
- The god or hero of
- The advantage of riches remains
- Science finds it methods.
- A great man will find
- Before we acquire great power
- The poet alone knows astronomy,
- The wheels and springs of
- Fashion understands itself; good breeding
- Nature and literature are subjective
- Our expenses are all for
- A right rule for a
- Let us learn the meaning
- The finest people marry the
- Beware when the great God
- In the uttermost meaning of
- The poet knows that he
- Valor consists in the power
- Natural religion supplies still all
- I like to be beholden
- Thought is the blossom; language
- The invariable mark of wisdom
- From Washington, proverbially "the city
- Self trust is the essence
- Two sorts of writers possess
- Oxford is a little aristocracy
- The world is upheld by
- The wise through excess of
- A friend may well be
- The pest of society is
- Generalization is always a new
- If you would rule the
- If I have renounced the
- The rain comes when the
- Life is a festival only
- All the devils respect virtue.
- Every action has an ancestor
- Successful people live well, laugh
- But the nomads were the
- Criticism is infested with the
- All men plume themselves on
- Man is the will, and
- Some of the sweetest hours
- Nature paints the best part
- There is no good theory
- Blessed are those who have
- Courage consists in equality to
- Each mind has its own
- We must not tamper with
- We walk alone in the
- In good writing, words become
- The music that can deepest
- Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot
- Every man believes he has
- Everywhere I am hindered of
- All that can be done
- Examples are cited by soldiers,
- Love, and you shall be
- In the morning a man
- Very few of our race
- A self denial, no less
- We judge of a man'
- See only that thou work
- As long as any man
- The state of society is
- It does not to dwell
- Guard your own spare moments.
- The office of the scholar
- As we grow old, the
- Divine persons are character born,
- If we meet no gods,
- Necessity does everything well.
- Neither you nor the world
- At times the whole world
- Wisdom is not found with
- Columbus discovered no isle or
- A woman should always challenge
- Where do we find ourselves?
- In the order of nature,
- The best picture makes us
- No law can be sacred
- Out from the heart of
- Teaching is the perpetual end
- Henceforth, please God, forever I
- Judge of your natural character
- He is a dull observer
- If we live truly, we
- Test of the poet is
- Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric.
- The moment we indulge our
- Commonsense is the wick of
- We never touch but at
- We may climb into the
- Money is of no value;
- To the birds and trees
- All the great speakers were
- We seldom see anybody who
- But the man and woman
- You will think me very
- Nature will not be Buddhist:
- Nature is too thin a
- When some external event raises
- Providence has a wild, rough,
- Frankness invites frankness.
- The religions of the world
- When It's Darkest, Men
- A friend is the hope
- Those who cannot tell what
- Let us stun and astonish
- Every book is good to
- Religion must always be a
- We are immersed in beauty,
- Dare to love God without
- Don't set out to
- By the irresistible maturing of
- Cause and effect, means and
- You cannot kindle a fire
- The ragged cliff has thousand
- We are reformers in the
- Style is only the frame
- The hero is a mind
- Life is a boundless privilege,
- Why has my motley diary
- The people know that they
- For the time of towns
- The path of things is
- The reason why men do
- Quotation confesses inferiority.
- Savages cling to a local
- Once you make a decision,
- Be a little careful about
- Nature may be as selfishly
- I see the spectacle of
- If we walk in the
- The writer is an explorer.
- The American who has been
- The mind does not create
- If a man lose his
- There are no days in
- The finished man of the
- That is ever the difference
- Wise men read very sharply
- Every hero becomes a bore
- Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
- Mankind divides itself into two
- Every great and commanding movement
- Science always goes abreast with
- And last of all, high
- Let ideas establish their legitimate
- In the hands of the
- But the wise know that
- Is the parent better than
- We are sure that, though
- Every man is a quotation
- In the matter of religion,
- Nature never rhymes her children,
- The quality of the imagination
- The sea, washing the equator
- Religion is as effectively destroyed
- Each philosopher, each bard, each
- Conversation in society is found
- I am not much an
- To fill the hour; that
- Cause and effect are two
- Let not a man guard
- Old and new make the
- The Americans have no faith,
- The simplicity of the universe
- The truth, the hope, of
- Prayer as a means to
- Why should we not have
- Right is more beautiful than
- That you are fair or
- We resent all criticism which
- Finish each day before you
- Only those books come down
- Intellect is a fire; rash
- No love can be bound
- All successful men have agreed
- I find it more credible,
- Our debt to tradition through
- To aim to convert a
- Nature is upheld by antagonism.
- A man is the prisoner
- Pride eradicates all vices but
- To finish the moment, to
- The new statement is always
- If a man fasten his
- The days come and go
- Nature ever faithful isTo such
- We judge others by their
- There is no chance and
- Masses are rude, lame, unmade,
- There are some men above
- If you don't ride
- If it costs ten years,
- The poet's habit of
- Among provocative, the next best
- But if a man would
- The instincts of the ant
- By the rude bridge that
- Society is infected with rude,
- A Judge may be a
- Each truth that a writer
- Those who stay away from
- I find nothing healthful or
- Things admit of being used
- Beauty brings its own fancy
- Only by obedience to his
- Our day of dependence, our
- There was never a child
- Alas for America as I
- Love of beauty is taste.
- The line of beauty is
- By virtue of the Deity
- Every materialist will be an
- A man's power to
- Politics is a deleterious profession,
- Power is the first good.
- Give a boy address and
- Character is higher than intellect...
- In our Mechanics' Fair, there
- The years in your life
- Nature is an endless combination
- Moller, in his Essay on
- Let us unlearn our wisdom
- Come out of the azure.
- I am Defeated all the
- It has come to be
- Tis the privilege of Art
- When a whole nation is
- Our poets are men of
- Friendship buys friendship.
- And, in fine, the ancient
- Self trust is the first
- Every true man is a
- tis a good rule in
- My son, a perfect little
- The world looks like a
- Each man too is a
- The two parties which divide
- If you have a nation
- It the proof of high
- There are men whose manners
- The affections cannot keep their
- Milton says, that the lyric
- The superstition respecting power and
- A man of no conversation
- Great men are more distinguished
- Keep your friendships in repair.
- If you will not lend
- In the highest civilization the
- Progress is the activity of
- If we will take the
- An expense of ends to
- Character is an invincible force,
- It takes a good deal
- Women have a less accurate
- Who looks upon a river
- A man of good sense
- The secret of fortune is
- I have thought a sufficient
- It is the dissenter, the
- The universal soul is the
- You cannot institute, without peril
- Our chief want in life,
- We dare not trust our
- He is a good man,
- If man has good corn,
- The True Artist has the
- Washington, where an insignificant individual
- Speak your latent conviction. . . Else
- A forte always makes a
- Hidden away in the inner
- The intellect is vagabond, and
- To the men of this
- No society can ever be
- We all need someone who
- The antidote to this abuse
- Our moods do not believe
- No member of a crew
- No doubt, to a man
- Music and Wine are one.
- Build, therefore, your own world.
- He who does a good
- A great man stands on
- Read proudly put the duty
- Our friends early appear to
- It is always a practical
- Coolness and absence of heat
- How much finer things are
- You see, it's all
- Yet a man may love
- All I know is reception;
- Being perfectly well dressed gives
- The mark of the man
- Health is the condition of
- Fashion which affects to be
- The compensations of calamity are
- Look out into the July
- divine providence Keeps the universe
- Do not fear to put
- God had infinite time to
- Every natural power exhilarates; a
- Men love to wonder, and
- It is vain to keep
- It is long ere we
- What a man does, that
- Dreams have a poetic integrity
- I think sometimes could I
- A state of war or
- Every man's nature is
- I pay the schoolmaster, but '
- If speculation tends thus to
- The world is young: the
- He who has acquired the
- An English family consists of
- We may be partial, but
- All the world loves a
- Nature arms each man with
- Thought is the property of
- The love that you withhold
- Some men's words I
- Pay no heed to the
- It is a greater joy
- As much wisdom may be
- Lose yourself in nature and
- Nature always wears the colors
- Nothing will supply the want
- Nobody is glad in the
- Those who live to the
- Why should I hasten to
- Few people have any next,
- Nature is no sentimentalist, does
- There are books... which rank
- Five minutes of today are
- A man's growth is
- No hope so bright but
- The rhyme of the poetModulates
- All great masters are chiefly
- There is nothing but is
- I now require this of
- We are never without a
- Each particle is a microcosm,
- God may forgive sins, he
- A mind does not receive
- Eyes...They speak all languages.
- Draw, if thou canst, the
- There is no history; only
- Reality is a sliding door.
- Self command is the main
- No man acquires property without
- We are as much strangers
- A moody child and wildly
- We might as easily reprove
- The youth, intoxicated with his
- The best university that can
- Belief and love, a believing
- Health is the first muse,
- The essence of friendship is
- The man (or woman) who
- Success in your work, the
- The wise man, the true
- That which dominates our imagination
- There is a blessed necessity
- Let a stoic open the
- though many painters and sculptors
- If we could have any
- When we attempt to define
- God will not have his
- A nation, like a tree,
- Whatever limits us we call
- All things with which we
- I see not any road
- If the race is good,
- The thief steals from himself.
- Every time you wink the
- The characteristic of genuine heroism
- All reform aims, in some
- The man in the street
- All things are moral; and
- We believe that the defects
- A cultivated man, wise to
- Consider what you have in
- I will no longer confer,
- Character teaches above our wills.
- All poets have signalized their
- It really is considered one
- Conservatism, ever more timorous and
- In the actual world the
- Everything in nature goes by
- Every sentence spoken by Napoleon,
- Life is an ecstasy. Life
- The world this shadow of
- Wherever snow falls, or water
- Passion, though a bad regulator,
- Let us interrogate the great
- It is said that when
- Good judgment comes from experience,
- Speech is better than silence;
- Outside among your fellows, among
- Let him be great, and
- A poet is no rattlebrain,
- I remember an answer which
- Only a biker knows why
- The poet, the painter, the
- The cold, inconsiderate of persons,
- Every word we speak is
- Every thing admonishes us how
- Many of the historical proverbs
- You have just dined, and
- Common sense is as rare
- This is my wish for
- Conservatism stands on man's
- In old Egypt, it was
- My friends have come to
- A scholar does not wish
- Genius has no taste for
- A sturdy lad from New
- I wish to write such
- The good news is that
- Ever fresh the broad creation,
- In every work of genius
- Therefore is nature ever the
- The university must be retrospective.
- Besides the general infusion of
- The worthless and offensive members
- The man, who has seen
- We know that madness belongs
- In America the geography is
- Genius, even, as it is
- Everything good is on the
- There is no teaching until
- Housekeeping is not beautiful; it
- The attraction and superiority of
- A healthy soul stands united
- We are always getting ready
- Men are born to write.
- The mark of a man
- When duty whispers low, Thou
- When there is no vision,
- Patience and fortitude conquer all
- The gates of thought, how
- We owe to genius always
- Let us learn to live
- The pleasure of life is
- Moral qualities rule the world,
- Of Nature itself upon the
- Observe how every truth and
- Presently we pass to some
- If the individuals who compose
- You cannot do a kindness
- Wherever there is power, there
- Genius is saying what is
- Goodness that preaches undoes itself.
- he who should inspire and
- Some people are born very
- The sweetest music is not
- We are not very much
- Give me wine to wash
- I look on trade and
- The walls of rude minds
- In the Fiji islands, it
- Thou art to me a
- The preamble of thought, the
- The religions we call false
- If the single man plant
- The world is the ring
- Plato is philosophy, and philosophy,
- It is for want of
- The force of character is
- The cities drain the country
- In the country, without any
- But a compassion for that
- Win as if you were
- The State is a poor,
- Invention breeds invention. No sooner
- We boil at different degrees.
- The end of being is
- Each man, if he attempts
- In actions of enthusiasm, this
- To laugh often and love
- The secret of education lies
- Nobody trips over mountains. It
- I wish that life should
- What can we see, read,
- All history is biography.
- The man for whom the
- There is no great and
- In spite of Virtue and
- Nature, as we know her,
- Getting old is a fascination
- What art can paint or
- There is always a certain
- There is no country in
- You may regret calamities if
- Next to the originator of
- The secret of success in
- The beautiful is never plentiful.
- I think no virtue goes
- Beauty rests on necessities.
- Our admiration of the antique
- Gold and iron are good
- Good writing is a kind
- A man will be eloquent
- Let the words be gazetted
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do
- The mass of men worry
- You never know how you
- Our civility, England determines the
- Proverbs, like the sacred books
- The merit claimed for the
- You must let go of
- Five great enemies of peace
- God is our name for
- Works of the intellect are
- To different minds, the same
- No man gains credit for
- In order for one to
- All nobility in its beginnings
- The essence of age is
- What is the end of
- There is this to be
- Taking to pieces is the
- The passages of Shakespeare that
- Whilst we want cities as
- Peace has its victories, but
- Creative force, like a musical
- Language is a city, to
- I admire answers to which
- What terrible questions we are
- The cure for false theology
- The way to write is
- Proverbs are the literature of
- Cowardice shuts the eyes till
- We grizzle every day. I
- Our globe discovers its bidden
- Best masters for the young
- A garden is like those
- A fact is the end
- Every stoic was a stoic;
- Do not you see that
- I'm happier. I guess
- The selfish man suffers more
- There is no man of
- The flowers talk when the
- Live, let live, and help
- Education should be as broad
- The land is the appointed
- There is no one who
- The soul comes from without
- The kitchen clock is more
- Everything is beautiful seen from
- Some people will tell you
- The refining influence is the
- The world is his who
- It is in the stomach
- If I know your sect,
- as if life were a
- For beauty is God's
- The ship of heaven guides
- A man should give us
- The most Indian thing about
- The most advanced nations are
- All inquiry into antiquity, all
- What we love that we
- A fly is as untamable
- Of course you will insist
- A low self love in
- The secret of success lies
- In like manner the effect
- By God, I will not
- Everything in creation has its
- Infancy is the perpetual Messiah,
- God evidently does not intend
- God made yeast, as well
- My giant goes with me
- The less government we have
- Man is not a farmer,
- The influence of the senses
- Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is
- My tongue is prone to
- Slavery is no scholar, no
- The experience of each new
- My life is not an
- We know more from nature
- The virtue in most request
- Only be admonished by what
- We, as we read, must
- Our statute is a currency
- The possibility of interpretation lies
- The tendencies of the times
- Art should exhilarate, and throw
- A man of thought must
- Many a man had taken
- Do not speak of God
- Friendship is an order of
- A strenuous soul hates cheap
- We are rich only through
- Our strength grows out of
- Greatness is a property for
- Conversation is our account of
- And yet it is not
- Good as is discourse, silence
- If you meet a sectary,
- There is a class of
- Go, speed the stars of
- A good intention clothes itself
- We acquire the strength we
- Every discourse is an approximate
- Our health is our sound
- Every experiment, by multitudes or
- A man of genius is
- The reward of a thing
- The history of the genesis
- Things are in the saddle.
- The Bhagavad Gita is an
- Do not be caught by
- The Roman rule was, to
- We want men and women
- Love, which is the essence
- The key to every man
- I unsettle all things.
- The divine gift is ever
- Life is not so short
- Do not say things. What
- What we seek we shall
- The delicious faces of children,
- The maker of a sentence
- The service a man renders
- It seems as if nature,
- The senses collect the surface
- The aid we can give
- When all shoot at one
- The hero is suffered to
- Give me health and a
- Sitting back in the evening,
- I have been told by
- it in every fair face,
- The city is recruited from
- Wherever the truth is injured,
- The religion of one age
- The lover is made happier
- A great mind is a
- Every calamity is a spur
- The reliance on authority measures
- Whenever the pulpit is usurped
- The one thing in the
- The customer is the immediate
- Man is priest, and scholar,
- The April winds are magical,
- Poetry makes its own pertinence,
- Speech is power: speech is
- But wise men pierce this
- But there is no end
- There is also something excellent
- Perpetual modernism is the measure
- If with love thy heart
- All things are moral. That
- There are many faculties in
- The age of puberty is
- The art of sculpture is
- The picture waits for my
- A man is reputed to
- Man moves in all modes,
- Successful is the person who
- Hitch your wagon to a
- But in every constitution some
- The landscape belongs to the
- Let us, if we must
- Talent finds its models, methods,
- When we quarrel, how we
- Good churches are not built
- Sorrow looks back, Worry looks
- Justice satisfies everybody, and justice
- Thoughts come into our minds
- Solvency is maintained by means
- The affirmative of affirmatives... is
- The sermon which I write
- All history is but the
- Mankind have such a deep
- When I have attempted to
- Heaven sometimes hedges a rare
- Fear is cruel and mean.
- It is greatest to believe
- The Frenchman invented the ruffle;
- Bare lists of words are
- Though we travel the world
- Nature is not slow to
- The greatest difficulty is that
- We can only be valued
- The genius of reading and
- The whole of what we
- Take egotism out and you
- A sleeping child gives me
- Power and speed be hands
- If you act, you show
- The sentiment of virtue is
- Shakespeare will never be made
- The wave of evil washes
- Don't hang a dismal
- Riding a horse is not
- When there is sympathy, there
- The multitude of false churches
- When its errands are noble
- No facts to me are
- Everyone I meet is in
- There is a certain wisdom
- When I was praised I
- Excite the soul, and the
- Be brave enough to do
- Stand guard at the portal
- If the king is in
- The world is all gates,
- Every man contemplates an angel
- A man should not be
- Good manners are made up
- Whenever a mind is simple
- Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections
- We are adapted to infinity.
- As soon as the man
- Let me admonish you, first
- We want a state of
- Literature is eavesdropping.
- Each work of art excludes
- Do your work, but do
- Women, as most susceptible, are
- Dream delivers us to dream,
- Who shall forbid a wise
- Get Health. No labor, effort
- We pass for what we
- The masters painted for joy,
- Women stand related to beautiful
- He thought it happier to
- There is more in every
- Many eyes go through the
- To laugh often and much ...
- A song is no song
- There is no better way
- Character repudiates intellect, yet excites
- The Gods we worship write
- The measure of mental health
- Converse with a mind that
- Genius is its own end.
- Genius is always sufficiently the
- The cannon will not suffer
- A man is a hero,
- Why should we grope among
- We are the prisoners of
- To the attentive eye, each
- The earth is a machine
- The great man, that is,
- Every man is a channel
- The measure of action is
- It was high counsel that
- The machine unmakes the man.
- Let him go where he
- Every natural action is graceful.
- One can never truly savor
- Keep cool: it will be
- We estimate the wisdom of
- A weed is a plant
- If I made laws for
- Every burned book enlightens the
- No man has a right
- For a great nature, it
- The civility of no race
- I hate to be defended
- Intellectual tasting of life will
- Philanthropies and charities have a
- What is there of the
- Thought makes everything fit for
- Nothing is quite beautiful alone;
- But what help from these
- Let us even bid our
- Great thoughts ensure musical expression.
- Tis a short sight to
- Delicious is a just and
- It is not the irregular
- This one fact the world
- We are amphibious creatures, weaponed
- It is noticed, that the
- Adult males are what their
- The history of persecution is
- You cannot sincerely try to
- There is no God dare
- A man builds a fine
- He that can heroically endure
- Conservatism is affluent and openhanded,
- The universe is the externisation
- We read often with as
- A ruddy drop of manly
- No orator can top the
- Our faith comes in moments . . .
- I am grown by sympathy
- Allow yourself to trust joy
- Cultivate an attitude of gratitude,
- Let us not look east
- And so the reliance on
- The effects of opposition are
- The happiest man is he
- Great men exist that there
- Civilization depends on morality.
- If the aristocrat is only
- It is a fact often
- Deal in our privacy with
- Greek architecture is the flowering
- The purpose of life seems
- The moment the doctrine of
- Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning,
- Manners have been somewhat cynically
- We are shut up in
- The gift, to be true,
- Tis a rule of manners
- Or whipping its rough surface
- Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
- Labor is God's education.
- The shoemaker makes a good
- Experience is the only teacher,
- Egotism is a kind of
- Nobody can bring you peace
- It is only as a
- Of course, he who has
- Steam is no stronger now
- The use of literature is
- The manly part is to
- Great country, diminutive minds. America
- An individual has a healthy
- Men are conservatives when they
- No institution will be better
- The first wealth is health.
- Wherever a man commits a
- It depends little on the
- A man should have a
- The fatal trait of the
- No man thoroughly understands a
- Great is the art,Great
- The plays of children are
- When the act of reflection
- Government has come to be
- The solar system has no
- Wise men are not wise
- Ideas must work through the
- Life is not intellectual or
- The secret of ugliness consists
- The pest of society are
- The Buddhist, who thanks no
- Many might go to Heaven
- Man was born to be
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom
- Freedom has nothing to do
- In my dealing with my
- Without looking, then, to those
- That which we persist in
- It is the doctrine of
- All power is of one
- Steam was till the other
- Teach the children! It is
- It is the privilege of
- Sometimes we receive the power
- Not from a vain or
- But lest I should mislead
- If there is any period
- The mind is a finer
- Nothing is beneath you if
- The persons who constitute the
- Coffee is good for talent,
- Remarkable trait in the American
- But it is impossible that
- Art and power will go
- A man cannot free himself
- The man of genius inspires
- Is it not better to
- Do not spill thy soul
- But to most of us
- Beside all the moral benefit
- The meaning of good and
- What your heart thinks is
- Music takes us out of
- Nature is the symbol of
- The whole course of things
- The bulk of mankind believe
- We can see well into
- We say that every man
- Society is a hospital of
- If we tire of the
- A man is a golden
- A man is the whole
- Necessity does everything well. In
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration
- People say law but they
- In the great books of
- A man makes inferiors his
- Books are for nothing but
- Our prejudices are our robbers,
- Heaven is large, and affords
- Nothing can bring you happiness
- He is rich who owns
- I think all men know
- The only sin that we
- Every man's task [his '
- The delicate muses lose their
- Some thoughts always find us
- Find the journey's end
- Meantime the education of the
- Character is always known. Thefts
- The mind will quote whether
- Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
- Cultivate the habit of being
- Success to the strongest, who
- That which builds is better
- Do the thing and you
- As long as a man
- I read the other day
- The history of reform is
- All history is the decline
- The advantage in education is
- The eloquent man is he
- Nature does not cocker us:
- Everything in Nature contains all
- The vanishing, volatile froth of
- Black men built the railroads,
- I am old, yet I
- Tell them dear, that if
- Beware of what you want
- This body, full of faults,
- In the last analysis, love
- The highest proof of civility
- We aim above the mark,
- Economy does not consist in
- The genius of life is
- We must be lovers, and
- What we call results are
- There are men who, by
- Nature is made to conspire
- Every known fact in natural
- The poor are only they
- Art is not to be
- Men talk as if victory
- Every heroic act measures itself
- What the tender and poetic
- I am constrained every moment
- Blame is safer than praise
- It is very certain that
- What is addressed to us
- One must be an inventor
- As many languages as he
- A strong person makes the
- I find nothing in fables
- There are geniuses in trade
- Good thoughts are no better
- In youth, we clothe ourselves
- Writing should be the settlement
- The problem of restoring to
- I am become a transparent
- The soul contains the event
- Indeed the river is a
- Let every man shovel out
- New arts destroy the old.
- We are impressed and even
- Another sort of false prayers
- The religions are obsolete when
- Dreams and beasts are two
- Many times the reading of
- People wish to be settled;
- Many a profound genius, I
- A man becomes what he
- We early arrive at the
- The moral sense reappears today
- The life of labor does
- But what is classification but
- Eloquence is the power to
- All diseases run into one,
- That which we call character
- Who gave thee, O Beauty,
- A little integrity is better
- She shows us only surfaces,
- Even in the mud and
- To be rich is to
- The etymologist finds the deadest
- The finest poetry was first
- You cannot make a cheap
- I think I have done
- The world proceeds from the
- Our knowledge is the amassed
- We gain the strength of
- Shallow men believe in luck.
- They think him the best
- The law of nature is
- The unsaid part is the
- We say love is blind,
- The glory of the farmer
- Whatever it is, it's
- We ascribe beauty to that
- do not call yourself an
- We learn that God IS;
- Speak what you think today
- Railroad iron is a magician'
- Nature abhors the old.
- Books are the best of
- Whoever is open, loyal, true;
- Those who are esteemed umpires
- Don't trust children with
- Sleep takes off the costume
- Nature never sends a great
- Almost all people descend to
- He needs no library, for
- It is commonly said by
- In the true mythology, Love
- Thanks to the morning light,
- Friendship, like the immortality of
- My life is superficial, takes
- Men do not believe in
- We can only obey our
- We are all wise for
- No sensible person ever made
- There is hope in extravagance,
- I this thought which is
- The imagination and the senses
- A bullet had found him,
- Be not the slave of
- The roses under my window
- Society cannot do without cultivated
- A beautiful person among the
- Good nature is stronger than
- The only prudence in life
- We prize books, and they
- If I should go out
- He that rides his hobby
- It is dainty to be
- If you want a friend
- Of all the ways to
- Without the great arts which
- How we hate this solemn
- Of lower states, of acts
- Evermore in the world is
- I grieve that grief can
- The way of Providence is
- Every spirit makes its house,
- The soul circumscribes all things.
- The amount of a man'
- The greatest genius is the
- When we are young, we
- When we are exalted by
- All my hurts my garden
- A man in debt is
- A man is usually more
- Fear defeats more people than
- The world exists, as I
- A man is what he
- It is so wonderful to
- A house is made with
- Whilst all the world is
- The lessons of science should
- It is the property of
- Every chair should be a
- Adopt the pace of nature:
- Language is fossil Poetry.
- Nature is good, but intellect
- He who travels in search
- In sculpture did ever anybody
- If the whole of history
- Never try to make anyone
- If a man will kick
- There is no calamity that
- Often a certain abdication of
- O, when I am safe
- Books take their place according
- When we have arrived at
- In daily life what distinguishes
- The idiot, the Indian, the
- The mystic must be steadily
- Let us not forget the
- I have no hostility to
- When I read a good
- Then climate is a great
- Heaven always bears some proportion
- Nature magically suits a man
- The poor and the low
- The faith that stands on
- The most tedious of all
- It is the fault of
- It is only when mind
- Without ambition one starts nothing.
- The powers of the Soul
- To say then, the majority
- The universal does not attract
- The democrat is a young
- What you are shouts at
- We love it because it
- The men who come on
- My joy in friends, those
- Man is a piece of
- We seek our friend not
- It is commonly observed that
- Teach that God is, not
- Culture is the suggestion, from
- Jesus Christ belonged to the
- Genius seems to consist merely
- Though I am weak, yet
- I have just been conversing
- A man is a method,
- Hence, instead of Man Thinking,
- Some men are born to
- Fame is proof that the
- Universally, the better gold the
- Whatever games are played with
- Man sheds grief as his
- A man complained that on
- A man in the view
- Tis the old secret of
- It is, in both cases,
- Don't make a novel
- The passive master lent his
- The measure of a master
- Classics which at home are
- The rage for road building
- As the Sandwich Islander believes
- We know truth when we
- Do what you're afraid
- The only right is what
- Men do what is called
- You must pay for conformity.
- Extremes meet, and there is
- It is a capital blunder;
- Fate is nothing but the
- Man Thinking must not be
- True friends are two people
- In a tavern everybody puts
- Say thank you! I want
- The cardinal virtue of a
- The louder he talked of
- When a resolute young fellow
- For this present, hardIs the
- For, the advantages which fashion
- The highest compact we can
- If we encounter a man
- All sensible people are selfish,
- The voyage of the best
- No book was ever written
- To believe in luck, if
- The gentleman is a man
- The student is to read
- On bravely through the sunshine
- Let me never fall into
- What forests of laurel we
- You cannot give anything to
- The kingdom of man over
- We lie in the lap
- But whoso is heroic will
- Our people are slow to
- It is very odd that
- We do not yet trust
- Trust men and they will
- Earth endures; Stars abide.
- Is there a difference? Yes.
- Eyes are bold as lions,
- For all symbols are fluxional;
- The hero sees that the
- People disparage knowing and the
- One man's justice is
- Society is always taken by
- We are thus assisted by
- Prosperity is something the businessmen
- Consideration is the soil in
- Time dissipates to shining ether
- Foolish, whenever you take the
- God hides things by putting
- When private men shall act
- Peace cannot be achieved through
- Repose and cheerfulness are the
- It is the fine souls
- Men are respectable only as
- Condense some daily experience into
- Men grind and grind in
- To a dull mind all
- Who loses a day loses
- The moral sense is always
- Nations have lost their old
- The true test of civilization
- An individual is an encloser.
- None of us will ever
- The world spirit is a
- For, though the origin of
- I feel some unwillingness to
- Our relations to each other
- As the farmer casts into
- Nature is reckless of the
- For, when men shall meet
- Nature is methodical, and doeth
- Only poetry inspires poetry.
- The nobler the truth or
- Skepticism is slow suicide.
- Chiefly the sea shore has
- Instead of feeling a poverty
- We talk of choosing our
- We swim, day by day,
- The great make its feel,
- Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are
- The book, the college, the
- Happy the man who never
- I do not wonder at
- The eyes indicate the antiquity
- Every novel is a debtor
- The brevity of human life
- The true poem is the
- Earth's a howling wilderness,
- The forest is my loyal
- Let us be poised, wise
- As every man is hunted
- There are always difficulties arising
- A divine person is the
- Accept the place the divine
- By fate, not option, frugal
- The test of civilization is
- The language of the street
- Society is infested by persons
- tis a superstition to insist
- Only that is poetry which
- Solitary converse with nature; for
- The only reward of virtue
- A Frenchman may possibly be
- Earth laughs in flowers to
- In talking with scholars, I
- The reality is more excellent
- As the eye is the
- Exaggeration is in the course
- Yet America is a poem
- Vigor is contagious, and whatever
- Each man has an aptitude
- Science in England, in America,
- So each man, like each
- Nor has science sufficient humanity,
- The escape from all false
- The vulgar call good fortune
- Each is liable to panic,
- The primary wisdom is intuition.
- What is the foundation of
- Happy is the hearing man;
- Who makes and keeps the
- Nature is a frugal mother,
- Pride can go without domestics,
- The intellect, that is miraculous!
- Everything that is popular, it
- What would be the use
- We find delight in the
- If a man sits down
- The subject is said to
- The consciousness in each man
- Our expense is almost all
- A man known to us
- All the facts of nature
- Only the great generalizations survive.
- Cunning is strength withheld.
- Nothing in nature is exhausted
- The South wind brings Life,
- Every man is wanted, and
- The riddle of the age
- As picture teaches the colouring,
- If you would serve your
- He is a good man
- The believing we do something
- I hate this shallow Americanism
- What has been done in
- Fractures well cured make us
- Inaction is cowardice, but there
- I dip my pen in
- Action is with the scholar
- I once heard a preacher
- Within, I do not find
- When a natural king becomes
- Pictures must not be too
- Nature: She pardons no mistakes.
- Crime and punishment grow out
- We must trust infinitely to
- Give no bounties: make equal
- If a teacher have any
- Genius is power, talent is
- All great natures delight in
- A good form strikes all
- Astronomy to the selfish becomes
- Echo waits with art and
- Man is the dwarf of
- Drive out Nature with a
- The soul lets no man
- The soul of God is
- A collector recently bought at
- This whole business of Trade
- Poets should be law givers;
- Words are alive. Cut them
- The only thing grief has
- The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism
- I pray my companion, if
- But I go with my
- For the existing world is
- Some books leave us free
- Our thinking is a pious
- Murder in the murderer is
- This day is all that
- What is excellent,As God
- The universe is the externalization
- We wake from one dream
- Though we love goodness and
- The wise skeptic does not
- Man is timid and apologetic;
- Cities force growth and make
- Beware of too much good
- Is not marriage an open
- We must not inquire too
- Let not the tie be
- Talent alone cannot make a
- Every individual strives to grow
- How casually and unobservedly we
- Government exists to defend the
- We owe to man higher
- Imagination is a very high
- Let it suffice that in
- For, whom the Muses smile
- Yet these uneasy pleasures and
- Can rules or tutors educateThe
- Excellence is the new forever.
- The new statement will comprise
- Genius has infused itself into
- And dazzling memory revive.Refresh
- There is guidance for each
- I hate the giving of
- All necessary truth is its
- To be able to discern
- Men who know the same
- Wisdom is infused into every
- Spoons and skimmers you can
- Preaching is the expression of
- The soul is the perceiver
- Personal rights, universally the same,
- As we are, so we
- America means opportunity, freedom, power.
- Moderation in all things, especially
- If we follow the truth,
- He that writes to himself
- What is the imagination? Only
- Whoso would be a man,
- Make youself necessary to someone.
- How much we forgive to
- Prayer that craves a particular
- Very idle is all curiosity
- But a public oration is
- Let the amelioration in our
- Man is endogenous, and education
- But whoso is heroic must
- Ah, if the rich were
- If the gatherer gathers too
- It has been the office
- There is no prosperity, trade,
- A system grinder hates the
- Society has no bribe for
- Neither is a dictionary a
- Law rules throughout existence, a
- Nature tells every secret once.
- Be a gift and a
- We must set up a
- Man begins life helpless. The
- As every pool reflects the
- War, to sane men at
- There are other measures of
- I have heard that stiff
- The goitre of egotism is
- I can reason down or
- To the poet, to the
- All goes to show that
- The noblest ministry of nature
- Rude poets of the tavern
- Courage of the soldier awakes
- Words are finite organs of
- The civilized man has built
- Not in nature but in
- Commerce is of trivial import;
- If government knew how, I
- Sickness is poor spirited, and
- Not the sun or summer
- If the tongue had not
- The most dangerous thing is
- When it comes to divide
- The sun shines today also.
- Daughter of heaven and earth,
- I have come to believe
- The wise man in the
- The dogma of the mystic
- We must leave our pets
- The restraining grace of common
- A man in a cave
- Pure by impure is not
- If your friend has displeased
- In the first place, all
- All our progress is an
- But only that soul can
- Men cease to interest us
- Fear God, and where you
- It all begins when the
- One more royal trait properly
- So . . . I feel in regard
- Never self possessed, or prudent,
- The Americans have many virtues,
- Evil is merely privative, not
- Traveling is a fool's
- I would have the studies
- Things bring their own philosophy
- Belief consists in accepting the
- The secret of poetry is
- People forget that it is
- A great man is always
- Picture and sculpture are the
- Thus grows up fashion, an
- Men of God have always,
- Little minds have little worries,
- Desire is possibility seeking expression.
- A believer, a mind whose
- It is with a good
- Perhaps love is only the
- No one can cheat you
- The multitude of the sick
- Since everything in nature answers
- Let a man behave in
- One of the most wonderful
- Let none presume to measure
- Science was false by being
- A person seldom falls sick
- Great works of art have
- Nature wishes that woman should
- Great men are sincere.
- The Good Spirit never cared
- It is defeat which educates
- A man must be in
- When a man meets his
- The only true gifts are
- The arts and inventions of
- Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
- The peril of every fine
- Life is to be lived,
- No man can be criticised
- Faith and love are apt
- Money often costs too much,
- People only see what they
- Men are what their mothers
- Society does not love its
- What a new face courage
- The height, the deity of
- The city is always recruited
- The "times," "the age" what
- Open the doors of opportunity
- I wish to speak with
- On the other side, the
- Out of love and hatred,
- Every thought which genius and
- Genius seems to consistent merely
- The mass are animal, in
- Money, which represents the prose
- There is no luck in
- In art, the hand can
- Add energy, inspire hope, and
- The solid, solid universeIs pervious
- The goof man, in dealing
- Nature is a tropical swamp
- A woman's strength is
- Let not the emphasis of
- Nature forever puts a premium
- I am a willow of
- Man is an analogist and
- The writer, like a priest,
- Among the multitude of scholars
- There is no king or
- Self reliance, the height and
- Nothing is more simple than
- Doing well is a result
- Never lose an opportunity of
- In the woods, too, a
- I read your piece on
- Every man is the inlet
- The profoundest thought or passion
- The surest poison is time.
- The field cannot be well
- The course of everything goes
- How can he [today's
- As soon as a child
- In analysing history do not
- The hues of the opal,
- Cities of mortals woe begone
- The hard soil and four
- The sensual man conforms thoughts
- Liberty is slow fruit. It
- Nature never wears a mean
- The revelation of thought takes
- What new thoughts are suggested
- People who know how to
- Our distrust is very expensive.
- In the learned journal, in
- What is a man born
- The philosophy of waiting is
- God will not make himself
- If, at any time, it
- He, who loves the bristle
- We surround ourselves with the
- My own mind is the
- Polarity, or action and reaction,
- There is a persuasion in
- Do not believe that possibly
- Power is what they want,
- For everything you gain, you
- We write from aspiration and
- There is a property in
- Life loiters at the book'
- Of all debts, men are
- Far off, men swell, bully,
- I know of no such
- Spurious prudence, making the senses
- We say the cows laid
- Yet things are knowable! They
- Every book is a quotation;
- Look out! Behind you!
- The value of a dollar
- Men imagine that they communicate
- We fill the hands and
- No man should travel until
- Each moment of the year
- Men are so charmed with
- If any mention was made
- Nature avenges herself speedily on
- People are timid and apologetic;
- Art is the path of
- The value of a principle
- Give me insight into today
- I must feel pride in
- The longer we live the
- The laws of light and
- The idealism of Berkeley is
- Your genuine action will explain
- I do not speak with
- My angel, his name is
- I see that sensible men
- And I myself, in Rome,
- The virtue of art lies
- When good is near you,
- I feel the same truth
- If you believe in fate,
- When the man is at
- Beauty through my senses stole;
- We judge of man's
- Nature is no spendthrift, but
- The greatest delight the fields
- The dead sleep in their
- The glance is natural magic.
- The scholar may lose himself
- In all things I would
- For nonconformity the world will
- Shall I tell you the
- Hence, the less government we
- We do not count a
- Again, the great number of
- Neither is life long enough
- Discontent is want of self
- Wisdom has its root in
- Love is the essence of
- Democracy is morose, and runs
- It seems to be a
- It requires a great deal
- What I need is someone
- The eloquence of one stimulates
- A hero is no braver
- A human being should beware
- I please myself with the
- Colleges hate geniuses, just as
- For the world is not
- Nature is what you may
- Put the argument into a
- Every man I meet is
- There is properly no history,
- Give me truths for I
- The world when seen through
- To believe your own thought,
- The human body is a
- With each divine impulse the
- The inquiry leads us to
- We cannot let our angels
- I wish to say what
- The first point of courtesy
- For flowers that bloom about
- Let the stoics say what
- There is a power in
- The world is emblematic. Parts
- Nature has made up her
- Go forth into the busy
- The things we now esteem
- Every ship that comes to
- Travel is a fools paradise.
- Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
- The virtue you would like
- Let us be silent so
- Performing on a stool, we'
- This ennui, for which we
- In the wilderness i find
- The President proclaims war, and
- And of poetry, the success
- Our housekeeping is mendicant, our
- Why should we be cowed
- Life must be lived on
- America is a country of
- Obedience alone gives the right
- The borrowing is often honest
- Character wants room; must not
- The whole value of history,
- The only joy in his
- Poverty consist in feeling poor.
- I have heard with admiring
- Treat your friend as a
- What is it men love
- Every fact is related on
- Let us make education brave
- What you set your heart
- There is a good ear,
- Throw a stone into the
- Every burned book or house
- The civility of the world
- Deep insight will always, like
- The beautiful rests on the
- My garden is a forest
- Thought dissolves the material universe
- If I have lost confidence
- Sugar is not so sweet
- We sometimes meet an original
- Our life seems not present,
- Society will pardon much to
- Painting seems to be to
- The energetic action of the
- But in our experience, man
- Every man is as lazy
- If we shall take the
- With consistency a great soul
- For it is not metres,
- Not always can flowers, pearls,
- When a man thinks happily,
- A creative economy is the
- This book of Montaigne the
- The bitterest tragic element in
- Tis curious that we only
- Government has been a fossil:
- The best bribe which London
- If you would lift me
- What matters most is not
- Every promise of the soul
- But I cannot recite, even
- Democracy becomes a government of
- When it is darkest, we
- The pulpit and the press
- What care though rival cities
- A man is but a
- Every act of the man
- Have mountains, and waves, and
- Genius is the naturalist or
- Is not prayer a study
- The genius is a genius
- But genius is religious. It
- When the spirit is not
- We love force and we
- All violence, all that is
- The only money of God
- No man can have society
- Want is a growing giant
- There was never a man
- The task ahead of us
- Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
- There are many things of
- I consider theology to be
- It is one soul which
- How silent, how spacious, what
- Everything in the universe goes
- I am primarily engaged to
- The sky is the daily
- The word unto the prophet
- A good deal of our
- Life too near paralyses art.
- Public opinion, I am sorry
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates
- America is not civil, whilst
- No matter what your work,
- The work of vegetation begins
- Every reform was once a
- Ever the words of the
- Some men love only to
- I suppose you could never
- God knows that all sorts
- The highest virtue is always
- Truth is handsomer than the
- People that seem so glorious
- The question is whether [suicide]
- Where there is no vision
- Talent may frolic and juggle;
- When a man lives with
- By degrees we may come
- The dearest events are summer
- Society never advances. It recedes
- Go out of the house
- The Church seems to totter
- Do what we can, summer
- Everything in nature is bipolar,
- Society is the stage on
- Don't be a cynic,
- Don't ever give up
- The eye is easily frightened.
- We do what we can,
- Lawyers are a prudent race
- Tomorrow is a new day;
- Every moment instructs, and every
- No great man ever complains
- The difference between the actual
- Let us be poised, and
- We first share the life
- The quality of the thought
- A man's style is
- The Gothic cathedral is a
- Postpone not your life.
- A lady with whom I
- People with great gifts are
- The visible heavens and earth
- Don't waste yourself in
- The eye is the best
- There are no fixtures in
- The charm of the best
- Men admire the man who
- The sum of wisdom is
- The Greek epigram intimates that
- The element running through entire
- We are as much informed
- Only so much of life
- God is Unity, but always
- I DO not count the
- A new degree of intellectual
- God screens us evermore from
- Few people know how to
- The pleasure of eloquence is
- The torments of martyrdom are
- When it's dark enough
- Our prayers are prophets.
- Be silly. Be honest. Be
- Although this garrulity of advising
- What is the hardest task
- It is a sign of
- The most useful man in
- As there is no screen
- For what are they all
- Art is a jealous mistress.
- One lesson we learn early,
- We are like travellers using
- Ethics and religion differ herein;
- If you love and serve
- We live in a new
- An imaginative book renders us
- In the woods we return
- To be gret is to
- Solitude is impractical and yet
- Every man takes care that
- I remember the thought which
- He is only rich who
- Let us leave hurry to
- Every man is a borrower
- Immortality. I notice that as
- Shallow men believe in luck,
- The only method to possess
- Wealth brings with it its
- It is in rugged crises,
- Nothing is secure but life,
- If a man carefully examine
- Everything runs to excess; every
- I awoke this morning with
- Concentration is the secret of
- All conservatives are such from
- A dilettantism in nature is
- Are you not scared by
- I wish that friendship should
- The time will come when
- One of our statesmen said, "
- Life is a perpetual instruction
- A nation never falls but
- It is an esoteric doctrine
- Our friendships hurry to short
- Accept your genius and say
- Artists must be sacrificed to
- Curiosity is lying in wait
- Nature is a rag merchant,
- Wouldst thou shut up the
- gratitude is the cheerfulness of
- A philosopher must be more
- A man finds room in
- There is never a beginning,
- The three practical rules, then,
- The remedy for all blunders,
- When nature has work to
- Old age brings along with
- Nature will not let us
- Money often costs too much.
- He who has a thousand
- You must elect your work;
- Always maintain your common sense
- If eyes were made for
- For the world was built
- These arts open great gates
- The word liberty in the
- The population of the world
- One thing is forever good;
- Overhead the sanctities of the
- A man cannot speak but
- A little fact is worth
- Every great man is unique.
- A man's library is
- The axioms of physics translate
- As the gardener, by severe
- People are very inclined to
- Welcome back my friends to
- Empirical science is apt to
- The sinew and heart of
- The greater speed and success
- The private life of one
- It is not an arbitrary "
- The right eloquence needs no
- Earth laughs in flowers.
- Could Shakespeare give a theory
- All that Adam had, all
- In private places, among sordid
- The intellectual man requires a
- Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise,
- If a man knew anything,
- Unless you try to do
- Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the
- The simplest words, we do
- The poisons are our principal
- To help the young soul,
- The squirrel hoards nuts and
- All writing is by the
- Happiness is a perfume you
- There is nothing capricious in
- We are symbols, and inhabit
- Age, like woman, requires fit
- The secret of drunkenness is,
- Is it not manifest that
- Two touch the string,The
- We boast our emancipation from
- Flowers so strictly belong to
- Any relation to the land,
- Well, the world has a
- All the great ages have
- All good conversation, manners, and
- The near explains the far.
- You need not fear to
- Happy will the house be
- Every man in his lifetime
- A man must ride alternately
- I am the owner of
- A deep man believes that
- In self trust all the
- Thought and knowledge are natures
- Perception is a mirror not
- Great men, great nations, have
- In imitation is a bit
- We find in life exactly
- Why should I cumber myself
- Youth is everywhere in place.
- Heaven often protects valuable souls
- The soul answers never by
- The leaves are falling, falling
- Men are not philosophers, but
- London is the epitome of
- Love is like wildflowers; It'
- Other world? There is no
- All the tools and engines
- In every man there is
- If a man owns land,
- The power of love, as
- God hid the whole world
- Only by the supernatural is
- Nothing divine dies. All good
- To live the greatest number
- Nature has her own best
- The best part of health
- Besides, our action on each
- Venus, when her son was
- A scholar is a candle
- Men have sometimes exchanged names
- Therefore we value the poet.
- Wait, and thy soul shall
- I fear the popular notion
- You cannot see the mountain
- The Same, the Same: friend
- The ocean is a large
- Not gold, but only man
- It never was in the
- We fetch fire and water,
- There are two laws discreteNot
- Shakspeare is the only biographer
- What is the city in
- What is man born for
- Every man's Reason is
- When the Master of the
- A man's fortunes are
- No reason can be asked
- An actually existing fly is
- None believeth in the soul
- Beauty without grace is the
- The real and lasting victories
- And striving to be Man,
- Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
- The Times are the masquerade
- When a thought of Plato
- Character is that which can
- He decided to give up
- Before a leaf bud has
- History no longer shall be
- The modernness of all good
- Every man is an impossibility
- Poetry must be as new
- No one suspects the days
- Machinery is aggressive. The weaver
- I have sometimes thought that,
- I like man, but not
- If there be any man
- Meet your failure nobly, and
- Every man is grave alone.
- The permanence of all books
- We must learn the language
- To get up each morning
- The richest of all lords
- Most of the great results
- I suffer whenever I see
- We expect a great man
- Headwinds are sore vexations and
- Wild liberty breeds iron conscience;
- The sun illuminates only the
- Those who listened to Lord
- Is the acorn better than
- Society never advances. It recedes
- We do not know today
- Beauty is an outward gift,
- Insist on yourself; never imitate.
- Bring me wine, but wine
- It is the quality of
- All great successes are the
- The angels are so enamored
- But harder still it has
- Nothing can bring you peace
- He presents me with what
- Philosophically considered, the universe is
- A painter told me that
- An orchard, good tillage, good
- The foundations of a person
- In conversation the game is,
- There was never anything that
- To accomplish excellence or anything
- A mob is a society
- You shall not come nearer
- Was never secret history but
- Our books approach very slowly
- Persecution readily knits friendship between
- Wealth and poverty are seen
- I find the Englishman to
- Whatever we think and say
- Every man finds a sanction
- Much of the wisdom of
- Don't choose the better
- Freedom is the essence of
- Alas for the unhappy man
- Society always consists, in greatest
- I have no expectation that
- Life itself is ... a sleep
- The statue is then beautiful
- If you take in a
- Words are also actions, and
- When we can't piece
- The motive of science was
- When a man becomes a
- Plato says that the punishment
- Talent for talent's sake
- Standing on the bare ground,
- There is genius as well
- It is a luxury to
- Every man who would do
- I covet truth; beauty is
- To have played and laughed
- Not a ray is dimmed,
- I have heard that death
- I am present at the
- Who are the farmer's
- Each man is a hero
- The finest wits have their
- The the illuminated mind the
- The mind, once stretched by
- I cannot forgive a scholar
- From within or from behind,
- A skilful man reads his
- A life in harmony with
- One more fagot of these
- The objection to conforming to
- Every sweet has its sour;
- All high beauty has a
- Why should the way I
- Each of us sees in
- Men's actions are too
- We must have kings, we
- We grant no dukedoms to
- We cannot forgive another for
- No one can read the
- It is true that genius
- What torments of pain have
- Sincerity is the highest complement
- The solitary knows the essence
- A rush of thoughts is
- Silent rushes the swift LordThrough
- Something is wanting to science
- A man often pays dear
- It does not need that
- This very certain that each
- The most attractive class of
- Show me a man who
- Men seek to be great;
- A gentleman makes no noise;
- When you have worn out
- No man ever came to
- We sell the thrones of
- Be a football to Time
- Tis weak and vicious people
- The one prudence in life
- Will is the measure of
- The secret of the illusoriness
- Human character evermore publishes itself.
- Do what you know and
- The human heart concerns us
- The worst of charity is
- Thy dangerous glancesmake women of
- Our life is an apprenticeship
- Talent is commonly developed at
- Wise men put their trust
- The great will not condescend
- Men of sense esteem wealth
- If we will not interfere
- Though love repine, and reason
- Would we codify the laws
- A day is a miniature
- These are the voices which
- We see young men who
- I learn immediately from any
- Children are all foreigners.
- The best nations are those
- A great teacher makes hard
- Whatever appeals to the imagination,
- People do not seem to
- Some of your griefs you
- Men consort in camp and
- Do that which you fear
- Tobacco and opium have broad
- Each man reserves to himself
- Great hearts steadily send forth
- Every opinion reacts on him
- The condition which high friendship
- Commerce is a game of
- Time is indeed the theater
- All persons are puzzles until
- The world is a divine
- Love is the bright foreigner,
- In certain men digestion and
- For poetry was all written
- Do what you fear and
- O friend, my bosom said,
- Every wall is a door.
- Fear, when your friends say
- He is the rich man
- I will do strongly before
- Looking at God instantly reduces
- Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice
- Life is not measured by
- Love is like a hunter,
- Prudence is the virtue of
- In this our talking America,
- Whatever is old corrupts, and
- The conservative assumes sickness as
- A third felicity of age
- The Oversoul is before Time,
- If a man can write
- Is not, indeed, every man
- In my utter impotence to
- Sleep is not, death is
- We infer the spirit of
- Give all to love: Obey
- A little praise goes a
- It is said that the
- There is something servile in
- When a man speaks the
- Society is frivolous, and shreds
- Enlarge not thy destiny, said
- When I bought my farm,
- A good intention but fixed
- Hume's doctrine was that
- The whole constitution of property
- What king has he not
- It is always so pleasant
- Beauty without expression is boring.
- He then learns that in
- It is true that the
- It is a mischievous notion
- Silence is a solvent that
- There is some reason to
- So use all that is
- Nature and books belong to
- The worst feature of this
- As Arkwright and Whitney were
- I hope in these days
- Come, see the north wind'
- You will always find those
- It is not length of
- Nature encourages no looseness; pardons
- For every grain of wit
- Europe has always owed to
- General ideas are essences. They
- Our religion vulgarly stands on
- The street is full of
- The charming landscape which I
- Everything is made of one
- Gross and obscure natures, however
- I would study, I would
- The never ending task of
- All men, in the abstract,
- A scholar is a man
- Our condition as men is
- The world exists for the
- Our fear of death is
- The death of a dear
- In the highest civilization, the
- The moral equalizes all; enriches,
- Go put your creed into
- For no man can write
- Where the heart is, there
- For he that feeds men
- There is in nature a
- All are needed by each
- In the vaunted works of
- Old & New put their stamp
- The clergyman who lives in
- The highest praise we can
- I always seem to suffer
- An original sentence, a step
- Nothing great ever happened without
- Expediency of literature, reason of
- If you believe in the
- Friends are like spaghetti, they
- Most men have bound their
- Walking has the best value
- The first lesson of history
- The first steps in Agriculture,
- England produces under favorable conditions
- Don't be pushed by
- though the wide universe is
- Play out the game, act
- Poetry being ... when we look
- In every situation do the
- We are a puny and
- It is a tie between
- The proof of a high
- We pray to be conventional.
- I know nothing which life
- Action is the process whereby
- Every man has a choice
- The sanity of society is
- In this great society wide
- Great men do not content
- The education of the will
- The vocabulary of an omniscient
- I do then with my
- I may say it of
- There is no den in
- After thirty, a man wakes
- There is some awe mixed
- If you visit your friend,
- There are dull and bright,
- The order of things consents
- The reward of commercial civilization
- Truth is the property of
- Do your thing, and I
- The peace of the man
- Our best thoughts come from
- Men should take their knowledge
- The sky is the ultimate
- Every genuine work of art
- Intellect is void of affection
- Far or forgot to me
- The world belongs to the
- To believe in luck ... is
- There are only ten minutes
- What opium is instilled into
- Because the soul is progressive,
- I will not live out
- English history is aristocracy with
- When life has been well
- And what avails it that
- Society gains nothing whilst a
- The house is a castle
- Work and acquire, and thou
- The highest revelation is that
- A home kept to the
- But the best read naturalist
- A certain awkwardness marks the
- Conformity is the ape of
- Cities give us collision. 'Tis
- The world leaves no track
- Be yourself; no base imitator
- A friend may be nature'
- Good bye, proud world! I'
- He that loveth maketh his
- At present, man applies to
- A just thinker will allow
- A man is a beggar
- We live amid surfaces, and
- He who knows what sweets
- Great causes are never tried
- Now every one must do
- The true scholar grudges every
- Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Some natures are too good
- Nature is a mutable cloud
- Not for nothing one face,
- There is a mortifying experience
- What is a weed? A
- Every industrious man, in every
- A beautiful soul always dwells
- One man pins me to
- Health and appetite impart the
- Every spirit builds itself a
- A man is a little
- Up and away for life!
- Worst, when this sensualism intrudes
- I think we must get
- The ancients called beauty the
- Therefore all just persons are
- But your isolation must not
- Whenever a true theory appears,
- Among provocatives, the next best
- Tart, cathartic virtue.
- That which befits us, embosomed
- All substances the cunning chemist
- It is very unhappy, but
- As men's prayers are
- Hospitality consists in a little
- The search after the great
- The prayer of the farmer
- There are not in the
- Who does not sometimes envy
- But man postpones or remembers;
- Heroism feels and never reasons,
- Everything in our world, even
- The people are to be
- The secret in education lies
- The crowning fortune of a
- Away with this hurrah of
- The days are made on
- The poet needs a ground
- The good writer seems to
- Art, in the artist, is
- Every man is eloquent once
- An individual man is a
- Let the soul be assured
- When we see a soul
- The sower may mistake and
- We rail at trade, but
- Flowers... are a proud assertion
- I look on Sculpture as
- Astronomy is a cold, desert
- Knowledge exists to be imparted.
- Here is the world, sound
- Envy is ignorance, Imitation is
- Infancy conforms to nobody;all
- Life is short but there
- Nature cannot be surprised in
- All things are flowing, even
- By persisting in your path,
- Wealth is in applications of
- Everything has its price and
- God enters by a private
- Grow angry slowly there's
- The victories of character are
- It is wonderful how soon
- Some eyes threaten like a
- Use makes a better soldier
- Success goes thus invariably with
- It is better to suffer
- The young men were born
- We want but two or
- The counting room maxims liberally
- Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui
- We live ruins amid ruins.
- We begin with friendships, and
- Knowledge is the only elegance.
- None shall rule but the
- When we have broken our
- Those who have ruled human
- The shot heard round the
- The sciences, even the best,
- Our eyes are holden that
- To be a star, you
- Spring still makes spring in
- Music is the poor man'
- The river knows the way
- If you would learn to
- The things taught in schools &
- To map out a course
- There is no thought in
- The person who screams, or
- My life should be unique;
- Never lose an opportunity to
- A child convinced against his
- There can be no excess
- Heaven walks among us ordinarily
- No man can quite emancipate
- The man who renounces himself,
- Beauty is the pilot of
- When a happy person comes
- How often we must remember
- The terrors of the child
- I thought as I rode
- The men who carry their
- But the mark of American
- Religious literature has eminent examples,
- Common sense is genius dressed
- Respect the child. Be not
- In a library we are
- Wherever a man comes, there
- There is no eloquence without
- The only thing that can
- Religionists are clinging to little,
- To be great, you must
- Poetry teaches the enormous force
- God never jests with us,
- The spirit of our American
- Every body we know surrounds
- Underneath the inharmonious and trivial
- Literature is the effort of
- Sanity consists in not being
- Every man's condition is
- When summer opens, I see
- All vigor is contagious.
- Every man is entitled to
- It is handsomer to remain
- The method of nature: who
- Let the man stand on
- A man's personal defects
- Let no one honour me
- Rings and other jewels are
- I have been told, that
- Language is the archives of
- There is creative reading as
- He that despiseth small things
- The terrible tabulation of the
- Sunday is the core of
- More than the diamond Koh
- Life is girt all round
- Man is the broken giant,
- When a man does not
- For, the sense of being
- The world globes itself in
- Life is March weather, savage
- No matter how often defeated,
- Heroism works in contradiction to
- And what is Genius but
- Nature is full of freaks,
- Every particular in nature, a
- The life of truth is
- We do not want actions,
- There is ever a slight
- A man must consider what
- In skating over thin ice
- The exercise of all the
- Each religious sect has its
- A man passes for that
- Life consists in what a
- The borrower runs in his
- Every artist was first an
- Perhaps it is the lowest
- There is virtue yet in
- Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
- Pride ruined the angels,Their
- The masses have no habit
- We shun the rugged battle
- Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins
- Power resides in the moment
- It's a luxury to
- Miracle comes to the miraculous,
- A person's life is
- The only way to have
- Men of extraordinary success, in
- It is easy to carp
- The world is nothing, the
- Your actions speak so loud,
- Always pay; for first or
- As a cure for worrying,
- There is a time when
- You can take better care
- A good symbol is the
- I like my boy with
- In all conversation between two
- Pain is superficial, and therefore
- Go cherish your soul; express
- The first questions are always
- The reason why the world
- What you are comes to
- England, an old and exhausted
- If I cannot brag of
- By going one step further
- First be a good animal.
- Marriage is the perfection which
- Insist upon yourself. Be original.
- Life is our dictionary.
- There is nothing settled in
- A new person is to
- Astrology is astronomy brought down
- Personal beauty is then first
- Money is the representative of
- Only an inventor knows how
- A sublime hope cheers ever
- Who heeds the waste abyss
- Say, what other metre is
- Luck is just another word
- The learned and the studious
- Whoso would be a man
- Teach me your mood, O
- The enthusiast always finds the
- Criticism should not be querulous
- You cannot hide any secret.
- There is then creative reading
- A man is relieved and
- We go to Europe to
- The connection between our knowledge
- What you persist in doing
- Man's actions are the
- All minds quote. Old and
- Everything is prospective, and man
- The nonconformist and the rebel
- Nothing is dead: men feign
- The greatest meliorator of the
- Napoleon said of Massena, that
- I am sure of this,
- It seems as if the
- Men of character are the
- Let the river roll which
- In a virtuous action, I
- Speak as you think, be
- Society has really no graver
- A good indignation brings out
- Greatness once and forever has
- He cannot be happy and
- Good and bad are but
- It behooves us to be
- The chief value of the
- A little consideration of what
- Aristotle and Plato are reckoned
- If I quake, what matters
- People seem sheathed in their
- It is bad enough that
- The people fancy they hate
- The whole value of the
- Great men are they who
- The intellectual life may be
- They who talk much of
- Under the dominion of an
- We teach boys to be
- We are too civil to
- History is the action and
- All men are in some
- Vivacity, leadership, must be had,
- Instead of making Christianity a
- Ten percent of people can
- As the traveler who has
- There comes a period of
- The idea of God ends
- Astronomy taught us our insignificance
- Many a reformer perishes in
- If you follow the suburban
- Poverty demoralizes. A man in
- I count him a great
- We denote this primary wisdom
- The conscious utterance of thought,
- He is great who confers
- A complete man should need
- Skill to do comes of
- Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis:
- The charm of fine manners
- The desire of gold is
- As long as our people
- Behind us, as we go,
- I cannot marry the facts
- He only is rich who
- It is doubtless a vice
- It is sublime to think
- What is originality? It is
- The paid wealth which hundreds
- That which shows God in
- The socialism of our day
- A man comes to measure
- Men have come to speak
- So nigh is grandeur to
- As long as civilization is
- The greatest gift is a
- There is a remedy for
- A more secret, sweet, and
- Daughter of Time, the hypocrite
- The great object of Education
- Others can get in your
- A man must know how
- He walks abreast with his
- Science surpasses the old miracles
- Souls are not saved in
- A true man belongs to
- Is not prayer also a
- But also the constituency determines
- We ask for long life,
- Conversation is a game of
- The rich mind lies in
- Sole and self commanded works,
- The soul knows no persons.
- Welcome evermore to gods and
- The martyr cannot be dishonored.
- Nature suffers nothing to remain
- Men have looked away from
- Such is the active power
- Self sacrifice is the real
- There is an intimate interdependence
- With most men, scarce a
- In the right hands, literature
- As gas light is found
- Colleges, in like manner, have
- Manners make the fortune of
- The Artist always has the
- The two terrors that discourage
- Life has no memory. That
- Wisdom will never let us
- We cannot overstate our debt
- No facts are to me
- We call the beautiful the
- Sculpture and painting have the
- Magic and all that is
- In the moment when you
- Mysticism is the mistake of
- The other terror that scares
- The good judge is not
- Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages
- Out of Plato come all
- Do you want to be
- Thus is man made equal
- Beside all the small reasons
- It is rare to find
- All forms of government symbolize
- In a cabinet of natural
- Man carries the world in
- Congratulate yourself if you have
- The world we live in
- Health, south wind, books, old
- The poise of a plant,
- No rent roll nor army
- We know who is benevolent,
- Keep the town for occasions,
- Solitude is impractical, and society
- Can anybody remember when the
- I suppose an entire cabinet
- Englands genius filled all measureOf
- Fashion, though in a strange
- Nothing shall warp me from
- Build therefore your own world.
- The inmost in due time
- Among the map makers of
- The laws of each are
- Strange is this alien despotism
- For every seeing soul, there
- Women, more than all, are
- We postpone our literary work
- Let the bird sing without
- All promise outruns performance.
- We over estimate the conscience
- The reverence for the Scriptures
- Every great man is a
- How much more the seeker
- You must treat the days
- Body cannot teach wisdom; God
- So in accepting the leading
- The lover of letters loves
- You do not get power
- The saint and poet seek
- The essence of greatness is
- The god of Victory is
- The maxim of courts is
- The greatest homage to truth
- The doctrine of Necessity or
- When fear enters the heart
- A man in pursuit of
- I ought to go upright
- Our chief want is someone
- Society is a wave. The
- In the Greek cities, it
- For every minute you remain
- It is the secret of
- No matter how you seem
- Shakespeare carries us to such
- Can anything be so elegant
- It is hard to go
- Self sacrifice is the real
- I can believe a miracle
- But every jet of chaos
- A man is related to
- There are three wants which
- Conversation is an evanescent relation,
- Power educates the potentate.
- A mind might ponder its
- Most of the classical citations
- One definition of man is
- Of all tools, an observatory
- Man exists for his own
- A party is perpetually corrupted
- Genius is intellect constructive.
- Whoever has had the experience
- The soul is not born;
- The tempered light of the
- Where is he who seeing
- We love flattery, even though
- Throb thine with Nature's
- In every company, there is
- The astronomers said, 'Give us
- Homeopathy is insignificant as an
- Every man beholds his human
- The judge weighs the arguments
- Under every deep a lower
- For, rightly, every man is
- To go into solitude, a
- Fear is a great instructor.
- A friend, therefore, is a
- Every young man is prone
- Europe extends to the Alleghenies;
- We come to our own
- I wish the days to
- When God lets loose a
- All science has one aim,
- Let us advance on Chaos
- Half a man's wisdom
- You think that your silence
- There is health in table
- The soul raised over passion
- Marriage (in what is called
- Every man is actually weak,
- The craft of the merchant
- O Day of days when
- The most active lives have
- Truly speaking, it is not
- In nature nothing can be
- I hear therefore with joy
- This immediate dependence of language
- The true preacher can be
- The true doctrine of omnipresence
- We put our love where
- In failing circumstances no one
- A walk in the woods
- The farmer after sacrificing pleasure,
- Men wish to be saved
- Persons are fine things, but
- Language is a city to
- Nature never hurries: atom by
- The sea is masculine, the
- There are as many pillows
- An eminent teacher of girls
- The essence of all jokes,
- Nothing is great but the
- Unhappily, no man exists who
- With the past, I have
- Man's life is a
- I cannot often enough say,
- What we have learned from
- But when you have chosen
- Truth gathers itself spotless and
- Sometimes a scream is better
- The beautiful laws of time
- Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease,
- I am always insincere, as
- So all that is said
- Manners aim to facilitate life,
- Revolutions go not backward.
- When I go into the
- The poorest experience is rich