583 quotes
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their admonishing smile.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount to fear.
Disputed
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Misattributed
There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every particle.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.
Attributed
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debaucher of sentiment?
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Disputed
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Misattributed Actually from De l'Allemagne (1813)
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.
Attributed Pearls of Thought (1881)
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Attributed Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)