The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly..

The sun shines today also..

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the ….

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, con….

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs..

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there..

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question..

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting..

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that..

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself..

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful efferves….

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim..

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose..

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread..

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end..

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances..

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some ….

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful ….

We read often with as much talent as we write..

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be..