Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nur….

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived..

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in compariso….

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to….

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins..

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent..

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and ….

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness f….

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent..

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice..

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight o….

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right..

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; th….

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere utt….

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is....

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible..

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpec….

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind..

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the F….