What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives..

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not….

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands..

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its j….

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously ….

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one wou….

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced..

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ra….

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to ….

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a w….

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate ….

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all y….

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of Go….

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man..

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired..

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still..

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him..

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosp….

I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such acti….

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour….

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul..