Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.