We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their positi….

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies ….

Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food….

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its iden….

Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; toug….

In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils..

Life is to be lived, not controlled..

Music and Wine are one..

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is….

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons ….

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative….

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves..

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life..

Youth is everywhere in place..

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average te….

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone..

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, a….

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man..

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men..

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the….

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyz….