Oh tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
He thought it happier to be dead To die for Beauty than live for bread.
Born for success he seemed With grace to win with heart to hold With shining gifts that took all eyes.
Good is a good doctor but Bad is sometimes a better.
As for the brandy nothing extenuate; and the water put nought in in malice.
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it and of him who can adequately place it.
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeares wit.
I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no nor the language the actors spoke nor the religion which they professed whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
None shall rule but the humble And none but Toil shall have.
In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
We love peace but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
The surest way to hit a womans heart is to take aim kneeling.
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
A man is a bundle of relations a knot of roots whose flower and fruitage is the world.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not And all their botany is Latin names.
By necessity by proclivity and by delight we all quote.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
The alleged power to charm down insanity or ferocity in beasts is a power behind the eye.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
What potent blood hath modest May!
That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Whoever fights whoever falls Justice conquers evermore.
There is nothing settled in manners but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
I rarely read any Latin Greek German Italian sometimes not a French book in the original which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh all things are; And it cometh everywhere.
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
Fear not then thou child infirm; There s no god dare wrong a worm.
There is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!