I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it..

I stand in awe of my body..

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious..

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it..

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself..

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that….

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and org….

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense..

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor..

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignific….

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convuls….

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of ….

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature ….

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times..

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization..

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man..

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, an….

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no q….

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one….

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish….