The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after..

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We hav….

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of ….

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn….

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures..

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, howeve….

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn..

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf..

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as ….

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the….

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportio….

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. H….

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and mira….

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature..

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law..

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my….

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin..

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part..

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortun….

Renew thyself completely each day..

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance..