A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
The less routine the more life.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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