He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.
Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
God'll send the bill to you.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
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