“The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.” 

“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.” 

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.” 

“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” 

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ” 

“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.” 

“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” 

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” 

“The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.” 

“Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. ” 

“Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....” 

“You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.” 

“Fortune befriends the bold.” 

“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.” 

“The only secret people keep is immortality.” 

“Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.” 

“We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.” 

“I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!” 

“I like a look of agony, because I know it's true” 

“Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies” 

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.” 

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” 

“Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.” 

“To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.” 

“I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.” 

“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.” 

“Forgive me if I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the dandelions, make a sorry figure in a drawing room.” 

“Earth is crammed with Heaven.” 

“I would have drowned twice to save you sinking, dear.” 

“Forever is composed of nows.” 

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” 

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” 

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.” 

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” 

“I tasted life.” 

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?” 

“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.” 

“To be alive──is Power.” 

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” 

“open me carefully” 

“To shut your eyes is to travel.” 

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” 

“The Soul selects her own Society.” 

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” 

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” 

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” 

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care” 

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.” 

“Till I loved I never lived.” 

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”