The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say.

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

Friends do not live in harmony merely as some say but in melody.

Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?" We.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.