when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop o….

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life..

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushe….

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung..

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all..

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people..

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating..

the matrimonial shoe pinches me..

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we ….

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on..

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished..