There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.- Henry David Thoreau
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
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.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
