SimplyNeo Quotes

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843

These rabble at Washington … see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step… (Journal, June 1846)

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Money often costs too much.

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?

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

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

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history; only biography.