Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told..

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo..

Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt th….

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth..

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature..

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep..

Beauty without expression is boring..

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole..

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles..

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dress….

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination..

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals th….

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself..

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed..

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality..

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the ….

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his….

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace..

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude..

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls..