I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

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