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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.Collection: Ralph
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.Collection: Ralph
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.Collection: Ralph
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.Collection: Ralph
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.Collection: Ralph
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.Collection: Ralph
Life is our dictionary.Collection: Ralph
Revolutions go not backward.Collection: Ralph
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.Collection: Ralph
There is always safety in valor.Collection: Ralph
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.Collection: Ralph
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?Collection: Ralph
Without electricity, the air would rot.Collection: Ralph
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.Collection: Ralph
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.Collection: Ralph
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.Collection: Ralph
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.Collection: Ralph
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.Collection: Ralph
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.Collection: Ralph
What is a farm but a mute gospel?Collection: Ralph
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.Collection: Ralph
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.Collection: Ralph
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.Collection: Ralph
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.Collection: Ralph
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.Collection: Ralph
Nature hates calculators.Collection: Ralph
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.Collection: Ralph
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.Collection: Ralph
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.Collection: Ralph
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.Collection: Ralph
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.Collection: Ralph
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.Collection: Ralph
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Collection: Ralph
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.Collection: Ralph
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.Collection: Ralph
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.Collection: Ralph
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.Collection: Ralph
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.Collection: Ralph
Children are all foreigners.Collection: Ralph
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.Collection: Ralph
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.Collection: Ralph
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.Collection: Ralph
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.Collection: Ralph
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.Collection: Ralph
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.Collection: Ralph
As soon as there is life there is danger.Collection: Ralph
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.Collection: Ralph
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.Collection: Ralph
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.Collection: Ralph
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.Collection: Ralph