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 | "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in
strangers" gardens." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "There is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other
gown in the world." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small
trader." | |
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Found in the topic Treason.
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| "Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There "s no god dare wrong a
worm." | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a
French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I
like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea
which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as
soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston,
as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me
in my mother tongue." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes." | |
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Found in the topic Success.
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| "None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have." | |
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Found in the topic Humanitarian.
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| "What potent blood hath modest May!" | |
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Found in the topic Spring.
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| "Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of
the intuitions." | |
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Found in the topic Proverb.
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| "Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it
proceeds." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his
shoes." | |
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Found in the topic Engineer.
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| "In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as
it is to invent." | |
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Found in the topic Diet.
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| "A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and
fruitage is the world." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue." | |
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Found in the topic Hearing.
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| "That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment." | |
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Found in the topic Judgment.
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| "As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in
in malice." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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| "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote." | |
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Found in the topic Necessity.
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| "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she
laughs with a harvest." | |
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Found in the topic Agriculture.
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| "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others." | |
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Found in the topic Manners.
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| "Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better." | |
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Found in the topic Bad.
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