The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder |
The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold |
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. |
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination |
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation |
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men |
The soul's emphasis is always right. |
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. |
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. |
The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption /pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. |
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power. |
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. |
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child |
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people |
The surest poison is time. |