"Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.”

“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."”

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

“When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

“Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.”