Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.