The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.