Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to...
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and...
Generally speaking a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination...
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it...
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with...
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no...
We know but a few men a great many coats and breeches.
I have a great deal of company in the house especially in the morning when...
Being is the great explainer.
Great men unknown to their generation have their fame among the great who...
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's...
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just...
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I...
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be...
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most...
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid and I have not the...
As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I...
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above...
Be not simply good - be good for something.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down...
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
