Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.