Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
Concentration is the secret of srength.
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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