The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
There is a crack in everything God has made.
We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Thought is the seed of action.
The surest poison is time.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.