The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God..

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….

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..

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..

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….

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin….

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it….

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood..

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter..

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones..

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends….

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only ….

We can never have enough of Nature..

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid..

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man..

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and….

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and n….