Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
The one thing. . . that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. . . . Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.
I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.
Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.
The Language of the DreamNight is contrary to that of WakingDay. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.