Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Today is a king in disguise.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

All mankind love a lover.

The soul's emphasis is always right.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

All mankind loves a lover.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

An empire is an immense egotism.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, ''Anywhere but here.''

Real action is in silent moments.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Love and you shall be loved.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Life too near paralyses art.

Character is what can do without success.

Self-trust is the first secret to success.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Live, let live, and help live

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.