The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality..

Language is fossil Poetry..

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury..

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us..

All writing comes by the grace of God..

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence..

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless an….

The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, inste….

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction..

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insa….

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep..

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality..

I am become a transparent eyeball..

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own consti….

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need….

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming ga….

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate th….

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to th….

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, a….

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their fe….