Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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 the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
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 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...
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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...
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...
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.