The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

True places are not found on maps.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.