“The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.”
“Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
“You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.”
“Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.”
“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
“I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.”
“Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”
“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.”
“Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.”
“Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.”
“I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
“Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”
“How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.”
“How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
“There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
“I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.”
“Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.”
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.”