God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive..

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers..

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than ….

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never a….

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark.

Only to youth will spring be spring..

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chise….

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events..

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage..

As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature w….

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes..

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work..

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind..

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her ….

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet fa….

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will i….

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed..

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiab….

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane..

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence..

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?.