What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this compara….

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be di….

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics..

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illuminatio….

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers..

Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me that there was somethi….

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes..

The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame... and I trust that I ….

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd..

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude..

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow..

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all ….

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary..

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad..

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit..

My greatest skill has been to want but little..

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds..

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath..

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division ….

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its v….

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies u….