Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.