The universe is wider than our views of it.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.