Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopar….

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages..

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died..

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of….

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar..

Hate can pardon more than love..

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting….

If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in….

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right….

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is....

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day..

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunde….

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!.

We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till the….

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book..

Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for..

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences..

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We….

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the su….

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent..