Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.