The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions..

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you..

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himse….

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip..

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail..

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn b….

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care..

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres..

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?.

The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and bur….

I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and property,….

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not disco….

I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love ….

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see..

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which o….

Love your life, poor as it is..

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music..

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know..

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character..

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but b….

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage..