The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea..

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed..

In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. Th….

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home..

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence..

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country..

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading….

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning..

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own….

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of pa….

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumst….

Life is as inexorable as the sea..

Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at ….

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable..

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards..

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes..

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality..

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges..

Noble discontent is the path to heaven..