I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.