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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong – only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist – nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor’s sake, stand fast and suffer long.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; – and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Education should be as broad as man.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding.

Real Quotes

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man’s limitations, it is all over with him.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Man’s actions are the picture book of his creeds.

Book Quotes

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.