Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once..

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all..

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert….

It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may st….

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it..

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it..

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacre….

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite..

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes ….

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now..

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.….

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one schoo….

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upo….

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about..

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity..

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm..

The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does….

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest..

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!.

We must look a long time before we can see.