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And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men — and the fools know it.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)
The hat is the ultimum moriens of "respectability".
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)
What a miserable thing it is to be poor.
Elsie Venner (1859)
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
Old Ironsides (1830)
If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him.
Elsie Venner (1859)
Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane.
Elsie Venner (1859)
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
Over the Teacups (1891)
Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)
Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Lord of all being, thronèd afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star;
Center and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near!
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)
We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.
Elsie Venner (1859)
Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on! there's nothing but illusion true!
The Old Player (1861)