To be awake is to be alive.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.