I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be u….

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the nat….

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefa….

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us..

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by d….

Be a gift and a benediction..

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals..

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the sou….

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terri….

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do..

We walk alone in the world..

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of ….

Power dwells with cheerfulness..

I am become a transparent eyeball..

A little integrity is better than any career..

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it….

The faith that stands on authority is not faith..

A man often pays dear for a small frugality..

The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, inste….

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts..