Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Wine is earth’s answer to the sun.
I accept the universe!
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it’s bloom, or it’s garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels...
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.