The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain..

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

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

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

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

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her..

No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet wil….

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from th….

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God..

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble i….

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make i….

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived ….

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerfu….

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed..

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, pr….

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are..

I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have im….

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices..

Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in….

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long b….