These are the gardens of the Desert, these/ the unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful	The Prairies - William Bryant
Is sin, then... like sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a hi	The Marble Faun - Naathaaniel Hawthorne
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe	Billy Budd - Herman Melville
Every real man must be a nonconformist	Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Standing on the bare ground – my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,	Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circula	The Transparent Eye-Ball - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural process is a version of a moral sentence	Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moral law lies at the centre of nature	Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
’We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe	The American Scholar - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things whi	The Over-Soul - Ralph Waldo Emerson
However mean your life is, meet it and live it. Do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so	Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Only that day dawns to which we are awake	Walden - Henry David Thoreau
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging	Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
I am the poet of the Body, and I am the poet of the Soul	Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abas	Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, / and I know it./ I pass death with the dy	Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed	Success is counted sweetest (112) - Emily Dickinson
my letter to the World/That never wrote to Me	This Is My Letter To The World - Emily Dickinson
The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon Earth – T	The Bustle in a House (1108) - Emily Dickinson
And make my soul Thy holy spool to be	Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery”
Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry	Benjamin Franklin
There are times that try men’s souls	Thomas Paine - The American Crisis
Conscious artistry and treatment of the subject is the key	Henry James's“The Art of Fiction”
"Bad" novels and "good" novels are a matter of taste, not morality or choice of subject matter.	Henry James's“The Art of Fiction”
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life	Henry James's“The Art of Fiction”