I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

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

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.