Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
From Henry David Thoreau
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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