When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that wer….

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour..

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is..

Love does not analyze its object..

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto..

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowsh….

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?.

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army..

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more..

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile c….

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and reli….

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speec….

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm..

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture….

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result..

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most mo….

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject….

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in th….

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the ma….

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me..

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?.