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We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfi...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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates,...more

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It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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We are constantly invited to be what we are.

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.