Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.