I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!