Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Votes: 23
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Votes: 14
Beauty without expression is boring. Votes: 10
Nature hates calculators. Votes: 9
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Votes: 6
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Votes: 5
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. Votes: 0
The first wealth is health. Votes: 0
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. Votes: 0
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. Votes: 0
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Votes: 0
All diseases run into one, old age. Votes: 0
Our best thoughts come from others. Votes: 0
The earth laughs in flowers. Votes: 0
Power and speed be hands and feet. Votes: 0
All mankind love a lover. Votes: 0
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. Votes: 0
To be great is to be misunderstood. Votes: 0
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. Votes: 0
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. Votes: 0
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Votes: 0
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. Votes: 0
The shot heard round the world. Votes: 0
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. Votes: 0
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. Votes: 0
Language is the archives of history. Votes: 0
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. Votes: 0
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. Votes: 0
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Votes: 0
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. Votes: 0
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. Votes: 0
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Votes: 0
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Votes: 0
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Votes: 0
Be a gift and a benediction. Votes: 0
Thou art to me a delicious torment. Votes: 0
Every hero becomes a bore at last. Votes: 0
Thought is the seed of action. Votes: 0
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. Votes: 0
Souls are not saved in bundles. Votes: 0
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. Votes: 0
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person. Votes: 0
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Votes: 0
Coal is a portable climate. Votes: 0
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Votes: 0
Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. Votes: 0
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Votes: 0
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. Votes: 0
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. Votes: 0
A man in debt is so far a slave. Votes: 0
Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Votes: 0
We boil at different degrees. Votes: 0
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. Votes: 0
The dice of God are always loaded. Votes: 0
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. Votes: 0
Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about. Votes: 0
Every wall is a door. Votes: 0
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. Votes: 0
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. Votes: 0
Literature is eavesdropping. Votes: 0
An empire is an immense egotism. Votes: 0
The world belongs to the energetic. Votes: 0
All life is an experiment. Votes: 0
I am become a transparent eyeball... Votes: 0
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. Votes: 0
Whatever limits us we call fate. Votes: 0
Life is a festival only to the wise. Votes: 0
Children are all foreigners. Votes: 0
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. Votes: 0
Language is fossil Poetry. Votes: 0
Frankness invites frankness. Votes: 0
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Votes: 0
Insist upon yourself. Be original. Votes: 0
Love is the essence of God.... Votes: 0
Calmness is always godlike. Votes: 0
Sorrow makes us all children again. Votes: 0
Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men. Votes: 0
Love, and you shall be loved. Votes: 0
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Votes: 0
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. Votes: 0
A fly is as untamable as a hyena. Votes: 0
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. Votes: 0
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. Votes: 0
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. Votes: 0
Life is too short to waste. Votes: 0
Women see through Claude Lorraines. Votes: 0
Shallow men believe in luck. Votes: 0
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. Votes: 0
Art is a jealous mistress. Votes: 0
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. Votes: 0
New York is a sucked orange. Votes: 0
The pest of society is egotists. Votes: 0
Genius Borrows nobly. Votes: 0
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place. Votes: 0
The surest poison is time. Votes: 0
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. Votes: 0
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Votes: 0
Our thinking is a pious reception. Votes: 0
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. Votes: 0
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Votes: 0
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. Votes: 0
A man is a god in ruins. Votes: 0
Flowers are the earth laughing Votes: 0
All diseases run into one, old age Votes: 0
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense Votes: 0
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. Votes: 0
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. Votes: 0
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. Votes: 0
Reality is a sliding door. Votes: 0
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. Votes: 0
Every artist was first an amateur. Votes: 0
The life of truth is cold. Votes: 0
Every natural action is graceful. Votes: 0
There is always safety in valor. Votes: 0
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. Votes: 0
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. Votes: 0
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. Votes: 0
The true ship is the ship builder. Votes: 0
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. Votes: 0
Hitch your wagon to a star. Votes: 0
The dearest events are summer-rain. Votes: 0
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. Votes: 0
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. Votes: 0
Excellence is the new forever. Votes: 0
Our distrust is very expensive. Votes: 0
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. Votes: 0
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen. Votes: 0
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow. Votes: 0
Revolutions go not backward. Votes: 0
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. Votes: 0
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. Votes: 0
Earth laughs in flowers. Votes: 0
What is a farm but a mute gospel? Votes: 0
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. Votes: 0
Life is our dictionary. Votes: 0
What you are comes to you. Votes: 0
Money often costs too much. Votes: 0
A day is a miniature eternity. Votes: 0
A forte always makes a foible. Votes: 0
A friend is the hope of the heart. Votes: 0
a good reader makes a good book Votes: 0
A little praise goes a great ways. Votes: 0
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. Votes: 0
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. Votes: 0
A man is related to all nature. Votes: 0
A man's library is a sort of harem. Votes: 0
A moment is a concentrated eternity. Votes: 0
A nation never falls but by suicide. Votes: 0
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. Votes: 0
A system-grinder hates the truth. Votes: 0
Ability without honor has no value. Votes: 0
Accuracy is essential to beauty. Votes: 0
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. Votes: 0
Activity is contagious. Votes: 0
All history is biography. Votes: 0
All men are poets at heart. Votes: 0
All promise outruns performance. Votes: 0
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. Votes: 0
All the devils respect virtue. Votes: 0
All the world loves a lover. Votes: 0
All things are known to the soul. Votes: 0
All vigor is contagious. Votes: 0
Always do what you are afraid to do. Votes: 0
Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings. Votes: 0
America is a country of young men. Votes: 0
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. Votes: 0
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. Votes: 0
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. Votes: 0
Be an opener of doors Votes: 0
Be not the slave of your own past. Votes: 0
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Votes: 0
Beauty rests on necessities. Votes: 0
Blame is safer than praise Votes: 0
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only. Votes: 0
Books are for nothing but to inspire Votes: 0
Build therefore your own world. Votes: 0
But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. Votes: 0
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold. Votes: 0
Character teaches above our wills. Votes: 0
Civilization depends on morality. Votes: 0
Common sense is as rare as genius. Votes: 0
Conformity is the ape of harmony. Votes: 0
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. Votes: 0
Conversation is a game of circles. Votes: 0
Convert life into truth. Votes: 0
Culture opens the sense of beauty. Votes: 0
Cunning is strength withheld. Votes: 0
Difficulties exist to be surmounted. Votes: 0
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized. Votes: 0
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. Votes: 0
Do what you're afraid to do. Votes: 0
Do your thing, and I shall know you. Votes: 0
Do your work, but do your thing. Votes: 0
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine. Votes: 0
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. Votes: 0
Each mind has its own method. Votes: 0
Earth endures; Stars abide... Votes: 0
Education should be as broad as man. Votes: 0
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. Votes: 0
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. Votes: 0
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding Votes: 0
Every advantage has its tax. Votes: 0
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Votes: 0
Every great man is unique. Votes: 0
Every man is a new method. Votes: 0
Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable. Votes: 0
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. Votes: 0
Every man is grave alone. Votes: 0
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. Votes: 0
Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference. Votes: 0
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. Votes: 0
Every time you wink the stars move. Votes: 0
Every word was once a poem. Votes: 0
Everything good is on the highway. Votes: 0
Eyes...They speak all languages. Votes: 0
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. Votes: 0
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code. Votes: 0
Fate is unpenetrated causes. Votes: 0
Fear always springs from ignorance. Votes: 0
Fear is a great instructor. Votes: 0
Fear is cruel and mean. Votes: 0
First be a good animal. Votes: 0
Flowers are the earth laughing. Votes: 0
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Votes: 0
Friendship buys friendship. Votes: 0
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. Votes: 0
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. Votes: 0
Genius appeals to the future. Votes: 0
Genius is intellect constructive. Votes: 0
Genius is its own end. Votes: 0
Give all to love; Obey thy heart.... Votes: 0
Great men are sincere. Votes: 0
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. Votes: 0
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. Votes: 0
He only is rich who owns the day. Votes: 0
Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens. Votes: 0
Humility is the secret of the wise. Votes: 0
I am a part and parcel of God. Votes: 0
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. Votes: 0
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. Votes: 0
I honor health as the first Muse. Votes: 0
I like man, but not men. Votes: 0
I like people who can do things Votes: 0
I like people who like Plato. Votes: 0
I see my trees repair their boughs. Votes: 0
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom. Votes: 0
I think no virtue goes with size. Votes: 0
I unsettle all things. Votes: 0
I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints. Votes: 0
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Votes: 0
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. Votes: 0
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. Votes: 0
Imitation cannot go above its model. Votes: 0
Immitation is suicide. Votes: 0
In imitation is a bit suicide. Votes: 0
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day. Votes: 0
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. Votes: 0
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. Votes: 0
Insist on yourself. Never imitate. Votes: 0
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity. Votes: 0
Intemperance is the only vulgarity. Votes: 0
Invention breeds invention. Votes: 0
Isolation must precede true society. Votes: 0
It is a luxury to be understood. Votes: 0
It is defeat which educates us. Votes: 0
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. Votes: 0
It is never too late to do right. Votes: 0
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. Votes: 0
I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. Votes: 0
It's a luxury to be understood. Votes: 0
Keep your friendships in repair. Votes: 0
Knowledge exists to be imparted. Votes: 0
Knowledge is the antidote to fear Votes: 0
Knowledge is the only elegance. Votes: 0
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day. Votes: 0
Labor is God's education. Votes: 0
Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark Votes: 0
Let us leave hurry to slaves. Votes: 0
Liberty is a slow fruit. Votes: 0
Life is a search after power. Votes: 0
Life is a series of surprises. Votes: 0
Life is to be lived, not controlled. Votes: 0
Life too near paralyses art. Votes: 0
Live in the sunshine. Votes: 0
Live, let live, and help live Votes: 0
Look out! Behind you! Votes: 0
Make youself necessary to someone. Votes: 0
Man is the dwarf of himself. Votes: 0
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. Votes: 0
Meek young men grow up in libraries. Votes: 0
Men are better than this theology. Votes: 0
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. Votes: 0
Music and Wine are one. Votes: 0
Music causes us to think eloquently. Votes: 0
Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Votes: 0
My giant goes with me wherever I go. Votes: 0
My hours are peaceful centuries. Votes: 0
Nature abhors the old. Votes: 0
Nature is saturated with Deity. Votes: 0
Nature is the symbol of Spirit. Votes: 0
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Votes: 0
Nature tells every secret once. Votes: 0
Necessity does everything well. Votes: 0
New arts destroy the old. Votes: 0
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Votes: 0
No one suspects the days to be gods. Votes: 0
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. Votes: 0
Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky. Votes: 0
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. Votes: 0
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. Votes: 0
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom. Votes: 0
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. Votes: 0
One idea lights a thousand candles. Votes: 0
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. Votes: 0
Only poetry inspires poetry. Votes: 0
Only to youth will spring be spring. Votes: 0
Our best history is still poetry. Votes: 0
Our expenses are all for conformity. Votes: 0
Our prayers are prophets. Votes: 0
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. Votes: 0
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. Votes: 0
People say law but they mean wealth. Votes: 0
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. Votes: 0
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love. Votes: 0
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. Votes: 0
Popularity is for dolls. Votes: 0
Postpone not your life. Votes: 0
Poverty consist in feeling poor. Votes: 0
Power dwells with cheerfulness. Votes: 0
Power educates the potentate. Votes: 0
Power is the first good. Votes: 0
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated... Votes: 0
Pride ruined the angels. Votes: 0
Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. Votes: 0
Pure by impure is not seen. Votes: 0
Quotation confesses inferiority. Votes: 0
Real action is in silent moments. Votes: 0
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. Votes: 0
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, Votes: 0
Science finds it methods. Votes: 0
Self-command is the main elegance. Votes: 0
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. Votes: 0
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. Votes: 0
Skepticism is slow suicide. Votes: 0
Skill to do comes of doing. Votes: 0
Society does not love its unmaskers. Votes: 0
Society has no bribe for me... Votes: 0
Society is a hospital of incurables. Votes: 0
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. Votes: 0
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. Votes: 0
Some will always be above others. Votes: 0
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. Votes: 0
Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole. Votes: 0
Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce. Votes: 0
Tart, cathartic virtue. Votes: 0
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. Votes: 0
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment. Votes: 0
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed. Votes: 0
The beautiful is never plentiful. Votes: 0
The best of life is conversation. Votes: 0
The borrower runs in his own debt. Votes: 0
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. Votes: 0
The eye is easily frightened. Votes: 0
The eye is the best of artists. Votes: 0
The eye of prudence may never shut. Votes: 0
The finest wits have their sediment. Votes: 0
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Votes: 0
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. Votes: 0
The gentleman is a man of truth. Votes: 0
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Votes: 0
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. Votes: 0
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. Votes: 0
The hero is suffered to be himself. Votes: 0
The house praises the carpenter. Votes: 0
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. Votes: 0
The instinct of the people is right. Votes: 0
The key to every man is his thought. Votes: 0
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. Votes: 0
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other. Votes: 0
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. Votes: 0
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. Votes: 0
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. Votes: 0
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . . Votes: 0
The only reward of virtue is virtue. Votes: 0
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. Votes: 0
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise. Votes: 0
The poem is a confession of faith. Votes: 0
The primary wisdom is intuition. Votes: 0
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. Votes: 0
The rain comes when the wind calls. Votes: 0
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost. Votes: 0
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. Votes: 0
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. Votes: 0
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. Votes: 0
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo. Votes: 0
The soul circumscribes all things. Votes: 0
The soul knows no persons. Votes: 0
The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed. Votes: 0
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible. Votes: 0
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. Votes: 0
The sun shines today also. Votes: 0
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. Votes: 0
The true poem is the poet's mind. Votes: 0
The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea. Votes: 0
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go. Votes: 0
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. Votes: 0
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. Votes: 0
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. Votes: 0
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. Votes: 0
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. Votes: 0
There is no God dare wrong a worm. Votes: 0
There is no history; only biography. Votes: 0
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. Votes: 0
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. Votes: 0
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. Votes: 0
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. Votes: 0
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic. Votes: 0
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Votes: 0
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. Votes: 0
Thoughts rule the world. Votes: 0
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. Votes: 0
Tis good-will makes intelligence. Votes: 0
To be gret is to be misunderstood. Votes: 0
To Be is to live with God. Votes: 0
To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another. Votes: 0
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded. Votes: 0
Today is a king in disguise. Votes: 0
Travel is a fools paradise. Votes: 0
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Votes: 0
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. Votes: 0
Treat your friend as a spectacle. Votes: 0
True wit never made us laugh. Votes: 0
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. Votes: 0
Truth is the summit of being. Votes: 0
Under every deep a lower deep opens. Votes: 0
Wait, and thy soul shall speak. Votes: 0
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. Votes: 0
We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. Votes: 0
We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday. Votes: 0
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Votes: 0
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. Votes: 0
We are the prisoners of ideas. Votes: 0
We are wiser than we know. Votes: 0
We can only obey our own polarity. Votes: 0
We change whether we like it or not. Votes: 0
We go to Europe to be Americanized. Votes: 0
We have more than we use. Votes: 0
We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. Votes: 0
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake. Votes: 0
We live ruins amid ruins. Votes: 0
We may be partial, but Fate is not. Votes: 0
We never touch but at points. Votes: 0
We pass for what we are. Votes: 0
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. Votes: 0
We walk alone in the world. Votes: 0
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. Votes: 0
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. Votes: 0
What potent blood hath modest May. Votes: 0
What we call results are beginnings. Votes: 0
Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth. Votes: 0
Whatever you do, you need courage. Votes: 0
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. Votes: 0
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races. Votes: 0
When half-gods go The gods arrive. Votes: 0
When it's dark enough men see stars. Votes: 0
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body. Votes: 0
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate. Votes: 0
Who loses a day loses life. Votes: 0
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? Votes: 0
Wisdom is infused into every form. Votes: 0
Wise men are not wise at all times. Votes: 0
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. Votes: 0
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve. Votes: 0
Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate. Votes: 0
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. Votes: 0
You cannot do a kindness too soon. Votes: 0
You cannot make a cheap palace. Votes: 0
You cannot see the mountain near... Votes: 0
You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors. Votes: 0
Youth is everywhere in place. Votes: 0