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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it beautiful.
Topic: Light
Source: Nature (ch. III)
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Topic: Light
Source: None
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Topic: Listening
Source: None
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
Topic: London
Source: English Traits--Result
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All mankind loves a lover.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Topic: Luck
Source: None
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Topic: Machine
Source: None
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Topic: Man
Source: None
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Topic: Manners
Source: None
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Topic: Mentors
Source: None
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Topic: Mind
Source: None
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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Topic: Minority
Source: None
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Topic: Mob
Source: None
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Money often costs too much.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
Topic: Motive
Source: Essays--Fate
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
Topic: Nation
Source: None
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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
Topic: Nationalism
Source: None
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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Topic: Nations
Source: None
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Earth laughs in flowers.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Topic: Necessity
Source: None
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Topic: Necessity
Source: None
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Topic: Necessity
Source: None
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Topic: Obedience
Source: None
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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Topic: Obstacles
Source: None
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Topic: Obstacles
Source: None
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Topic: Occupation
Source: None
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Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not.
Topic: Ocean
Source: Sea Shore
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Topic: Opinion
Source: None
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Topic: Opinion
Source: None
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: None
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Topic: Optimism
Source: None
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There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Topic: Oratory
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Eloquence
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Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Topic: Oratory
Source: Remark on Choate's words
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For the world was built in order
Around the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.
Topic: Order
Source: Monadnock (st. 12)
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Topic: Painting
Source: Essays--Of Art
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Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.
Topic: Paradise
Source: Merlin
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Topic: Paradise
Source: None
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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