The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here,….

Where there is no vision a people perish..

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more..

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees..

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means..

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree..

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves..

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition..

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or ….

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth..

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetua….

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world..

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water..

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves..

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, a….

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop..

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway ai….

The world is all outside, it has no inside..

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right..

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings..

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation..