To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

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Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.

Any truth is better than make-believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had any thing to say. Tell the tailors, said he, to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch. His companion's prayer is forgotten.

What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.

Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.

I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.

The man for whom law exists - the man of forms the Conservative is a tame man.