What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it..

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the despera….

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline..

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God..

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature wou….

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was ….

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere sh….

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temper….

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, ….

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness..

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in….

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom..

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life..

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home..

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be..

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four..

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes..

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, ….

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, s….

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science..