I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa...
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Faith never makes a confession.
If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They hav...
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Being is the great explainer.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer th...
The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in puttin...
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigour of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall neve...
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.