In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed..

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it..

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to th….

New earths, new themes expect us..

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intell….

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no….

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake..

As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I he….

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same ….

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light..

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea..

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; ….

The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be ….

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly..

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt..

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be ….

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself..

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free..

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living….

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate..