Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
A man perfects himself by working.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
History: A distillation of rumor.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thought is the parent of the deed.
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
A man lives by believing something.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
The genuine essence of truth never dies.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
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