“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. ” 

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

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

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

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.” 

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

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

“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious” 

“Forever is composed of nows..” 

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!” 

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.” 

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away...” 

“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.” 

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.” 

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” 

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.” 

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.” 

“your brain is wider than the sky” 

“your brain is wider than the sky” 

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” 

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” 

“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”