It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul bl….

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the S….

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. The….

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning….

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince..

Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is….

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition..

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing..

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness..

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man..

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver..

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has obse….

Do not read the newspapers..

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work..

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter..

The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through ….

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have b….

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business..

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority..

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain rea….