But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate th….

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, a….

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters..

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, wit….

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact..

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses..

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on..

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them procee….

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following..

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth..

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses aro….

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming….

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their fe….

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century..

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury..

Culture opens the sense of beauty..

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming ga….

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else..

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the….

Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp ….