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On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have hencefort...more

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he h...more

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The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the d...more

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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite ...more

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Life in us is like the water in a river.

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No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to b...more

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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.

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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

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What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.