Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.