Posts Tagged ‘thought’

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to […]

  The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the […]

  I dreamed once that I was going to be hanged; but I was not at all surprised about it. Nobody was. My relations came to see me off, I thought, and to wish me “Good-bye!” They all came, and were all very pleasant; but they were not in the least astonished–not one of them. […]