Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man |
Imitation is suicide |
Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now |
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. |
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. |
In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. |
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire |
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. |
In Courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little |
In creeds never was such levity; witness the heathenism in Christianity, the periodic "revivals," the Millennium mathematics, the peacock ritualism, the retrogression to Popery, the maundering of Mormons, the squalor of Mesmerism, the deliration of |
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil |
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. |
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty |
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. |
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent |