“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”
Great“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
Life“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”
Great“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
Wisdom“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”
Society“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
Architecture“Things do not change we change.”
Change“There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.”
Life“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Religion“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”
Good“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
Men“Faith never makes a confession.”
Faith“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Life“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
Nature“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”
Love“'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.”
Health“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
Environmental“Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
Sad“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Dreams“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
Success“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Music“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”
Nature