Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work.

The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.