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

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter..

Any sincere thought is irresistible..

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day..

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures..

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps..

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine..

Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objec….

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for ….

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition..

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used..

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed..

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself..

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which th….

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing a….

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny..

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me..

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no….

Every sentence is the result of a long probation..

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the….