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….

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars..

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and t….

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly over….

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine..

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?.

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous ….

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of….

There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Wa….

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the ar….

We bless and curse ourselves..

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer m….

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first..

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent..

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied ….

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal….

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pac….

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my n….

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains ….

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….