The only way to have a friend is to be one. |
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century |
The people are to be taken in very small doses |
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. |
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. |
The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery |
The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place |
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly, or, "with the flower of the mind;" not with the intellect, used as an organ, but with the intellect released from all service, and suffered to take its direction fro |
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce. |
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him |
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life. |
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought |
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. |
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. |