The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too ea….

Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles the blood to the marble bone….

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are..

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way..

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon..

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing..

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented p….

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey..

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal..

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little..

Real action is in silent moments..

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to ….

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Pas….

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace..

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience..

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye..

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from..

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any ….

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple..

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the percept….

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand..