Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.