If you give money, spend yourself with it..

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the posse….

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head..

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact..

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced..

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all y….

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of Go….

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still..

When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that wer….

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is..

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speec….

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most mo….

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject….

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed..

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which th….

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method..

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward..

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors..

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect..