And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries a….

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way..

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymp….

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption..

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irrever….

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well..

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them..

That grand old poem called Winter.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined..

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen..

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known..

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws….

I have great faith in a seed..

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that sav….

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate..

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ou….

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams..

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the….

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns..

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgres….