There is no remedy for love but to love more.
What is once well done is done forever.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.
I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreami...
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a govern...
A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It i...
Si vous voulez convaincre un homme qu'il agit mal, agissez bien. Mais ne vous souciez pas de le convaincre. Les hommes croient ce qu'ils voient. Alors, donnez-leur à voir.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
To be awake is to be alive.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometime...