"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"They sicken of the calm that know the storm."

"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."

"To believe in luck ... is skepticism."

"Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!"

"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

"There is properly no history only biography."

"Pride ruined the angels."

"It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men."

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

"We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star."

"Earth laughs in flowers."

"To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius."

"The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills, I mournThe darling who shall not return."

"Who loses a day loses life."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."

"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."

"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."

"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."

"Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials."

"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."

"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide."

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."

"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire."

"The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society."

"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."

"Children are all foreigners."

"Culture with us ends in headache."

"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."

"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

"The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders."

"Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!"

"Self-command is the main elegance."

"We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use."

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"Imitation cannot go above its model."

"The one thing in the world of value is the active soul."

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no."

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."

"They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars, but they whose work carves out work for more, opens a path for all. For he is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilization."

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."