 May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! |
| Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. |
| The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. |
| We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. |
| If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? |
| There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. |
| That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest. |
| Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. |
| If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. |
| I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. |
| How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. |
| Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. |
| It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. |
| If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. |
| I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. |
| The universe is wider than our views of it. |
| Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? |
| Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. |
| We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. |
| The bluebird carries the sky on his back. |
