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..

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….

We must look a long time before we can see.