in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
A fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
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Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French.
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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing of the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Good works may exist without saving principles, and therefore cannot contain in themselves the principles of salvation; but saving principles never did, never can exist without good works. Men often talk against faith, and make strange monsters in their imagination of those who profess to abide by the words of the apostle interpreted literally, and yet in their ordinary feelings they themselves judge and act by a similar principle. For what is love without kind offices whenever they are possible? (And they are always possible, if not by actions, commonly so called, yet by kind words, by kind looks, and, where these are out of our power, by kind thoughts and fervent prayers!) Yet what noble mind would not be offended if he were supposed to value the serviceable offices equally with the love that produced them; or if he were thought to value the love for the sake of the services, and not the services for the sake of the love?
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Understanding is discursive, and in all its judgments refers to some other faculty as its ultimate authority. It is the faculty of reflection. Reason is fixed, and in all its decisions appeals to itself as the ground and substance of their truth. It is the faculty of contemplation. It is indeed far nearer to sense than to understanding.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
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The word nature has been used in two senses; viz., actively and passively, energetic and material. In the first it signifies the inward principle of whatever is requisite for the reality of a thing as existent.... In the second or material sense of the word nature, we mean by it the sum total of all things, so far as they are objects of our senses, and consequently of possible experience, —the aggregate of phenomena, whether existing for our outward senses or for our inner sense.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
There is nothing insignificant, nothing.
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