Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
Many make the household but only one the home.
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.
The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.
My soul is not a palace of the past.
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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