Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick….

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life..

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of ….

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife..

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind..

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strengt….

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees ….

I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it..

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might ad….

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. B….

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what….

Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, b….

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader..

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy..

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers..

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome..

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open..

Truth is the nursing mother of genius..

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thi….

Truth is the first of jewels..

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold..