The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.