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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Tablets (1868)
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
The less of routine, the more of life.
Table-Talk (1877)
Our ideals are our better selves.
Table-Talk (1877)
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly; books and colleges at second-hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars: actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as these rise and fall.
Tablets (1868)
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
Orphic Sayings (1840)
Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The richest minds need not large libraries.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
“Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man,” says Xenophon, “is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.”
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,—by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,—becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)