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Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born,
And gives the crutch the cradle’s infancy:
O, ’tis the sun that maketh all things shine.
Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,
That sings heaven’s praise with such an earthly tongue.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing — as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.
One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
His individual dignity, not derived from birth, from success, from wealth, from outward show, but consisting in the indestructible principles of his soul — this ought to enter into his habitual consciousness.
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear.
It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
In the modesty of fearful duty
I read as much as from the rattling tongue
Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
For never any thing can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it.
Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
How shall we find the concord of this discord?
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends.
Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
When it’s easier to do evil, but you choose to do good, you are a true hero.
Nature has not said to me, “Be not poor,” still less, “Be rich.” She calls out to me, “Be independent!”
Pleasure can be supported by illusion, while happiness rests upon truth.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians — the inability to pronounce the word “No.” To be able to speak that word and to live alone, are the only two means to preserve one’s freedom and one’s character.
You will be of as much worth to others as you are to yourself.
Nothing is more delightful than the light of truth.
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
