It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread