"There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere."

Essays. First Series. Epigraph to History.

"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."

Essays. First Series. History.

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

Essays. First Series. History.

"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."

Essays. First Series. History.

"The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."

Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.

"Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will."

Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

Essays. First Series. Compensation.

"It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time."

Essays. First Series. Compensation.

"Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions."

Essays. First Series. Compensation.

"Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds."

Essays. First Series. Spiritual Laws.

"All mankind love a lover."

Essays. First Series. Love.

"A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays."

Essays. First Series. Epigraph to Friendship.

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."

Essays. First Series. Friendship.

"There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual."

Essays. Second Series. Manners.

"And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.""

New England Reformers.

"He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others."

Representative Men. Uses of Great Men.

"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?"

Representative Men. Montaigne.

"Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it."

Representative Men. Shakespeare.

"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."

English Traits. Race.

"I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes."

English Traits. Manners.

"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."

English Traits. Aristocracy.

"The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do."

The Conduct of Life. Wealth.

"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye."

The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.

"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."

The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.

"Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better."

The Conduct of Life. Considerations by the Way.

"God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth."

The Conduct of Life. Society and Solitude.

"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."

The Conduct of Life. Books.

"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

The Conduct of Life. Old Age.

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims.

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."

Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."

Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.

"When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.""

Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.

"In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.

"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."

Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world."

Progress of Culture. Phi Beta Kappa Address, July 18, 1867.

"I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion."

Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Preacher.

"'T is always morning somewhere in the world."

Orion. Book iii. Canto ii. (1843.)

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."

Prospectus of the Public Liberator, 1830.

"I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!"

Salutatory of the Liberator, Jan. 1, 1831.

"Our country is the world; our countrymen are mankind."

Motto of the Liberator, Vol. i. No. 1, 1831.

"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."

The Liberator, Vol. i. No. 1, 1831.

"Our country is the world; our countrymen are all mankind."

Prospectus of the Liberator, Dec. 15, 1837.

"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

Resolution adopted by the Antislavery Society, Jan. 27, 1843.

"Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea."

Old England is our Home.

""Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; "'T is the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.""

The Spider and the Fly.

"Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,--"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.""

The Lady of Lyons. Act v. Sc. 2.

"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Take away the sword; States can be saved without it."

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.