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To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.