Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, m….

My life is like a stroll upon the beach..

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor..

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain..

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have m….

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that i….

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much..

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages….

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions..

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go be….

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity..

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature..

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment..

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth..

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look….

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs..

One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six fe….

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in t….

For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no hol….

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that….

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher..