The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

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The only sin in the world is ignorance.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.

We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches.

The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. Compassion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.