Pictures must not be too picturesque.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye an...
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by a...
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a...
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, an...
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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