That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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