I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.