Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live.
Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field?
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
The better part of wisdom is a sublime prudence, a pure and patient truth that will receive nothing it is not sure it can permanently lay to heart.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed.
