Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

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

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

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That I'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me?

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.