If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble...
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is...
To a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit and...
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
It's not what you look at that matters it's what you see.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak and another to hear.
Truth is always in harmony with herself and is not concerned chiefly to...
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle...
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...
As in geology so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all...
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow but tend and cherish...
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law so much as for the...
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and...
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the...
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded but...
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the...
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long...
There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least...
Nature is full of genius full of the divinity so that not a snowflake...
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level...