There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
A man of no conversation should smoke.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
Skill to do comes of doing.
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
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