Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according...
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
One idea lights a thousand candles.
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their re...
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
Language is fossil Poetry.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.