We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical..

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit..

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling..

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant..

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images.….

Great thoughts ensure musical expression..

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment ….

Traveling is a fool's paradise..

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word..

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game ….

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful..

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off..

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak..

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen..

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children..

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns ….

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought..

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unackno….

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a ….

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is ….

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere..