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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...more

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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Language is fossil poetry

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...more

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Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the languag...more

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.