All great enterprises are self-supporting..

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping ….

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always..

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind..

However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more in….

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end..

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment..

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their….

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight..

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it..

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society..

Life in us is like the water in a river..

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction..

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, a….

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes….

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of ….

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and ….

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple ….

As a man thinks of himself, so he is..

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashio….

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just..