When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has ha….

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon..

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to b….

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower..

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object..

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen..

Quotation confesses inferiority..

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring ….

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to….

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great c….

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friends….

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me..

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind c….

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that co….

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..

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their conten….

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is culti….

First be a good animal..

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul..

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don….