Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The Library is a wilderness of books.
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
Fire is the most tolerable third party
Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
Music is the crystallization of sound.
Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.
March to the beat of your own drummer.
As for health, consider yourself well.
With wisdom we shall learn liberality.
Even trees do not die without a groan.
Much is published, but little printed.
Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
What is once well done is done forever.
The only sin in the world is ignorance.
Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
My life is like a stroll upon the beach.
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
We do not live by justice, but by grace.
All men are children, and of one family.
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.
Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
The improved means to the unimproved end.
We hate the kindness which we understand.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
We are older by faith than by experience.
We are superior to the joy we experience.
Let go of the past and go for the future.
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
The voice of nature is always encouraging.
People seldom hit what they do not aim at.
We must have infinite faith in each other.
Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
As if there were safety in stupidity alone
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
Be not merely good. Be good for something.
A gun will give you the body, not the bird
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.