Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all..

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds..

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended..

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting..

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one..

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown..

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert….

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should im….

It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may st….

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream..

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it..

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, ei….

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives..

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature..

To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they so….

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me..

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than….

Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see gree….

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it..