Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.