But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.