The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?