Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes..

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow..

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the ….

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should ….

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party..

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love..

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, an….

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am be….

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?.

I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass….

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beaut….

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbo….

A fact may blossom into a truth..

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual..

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white ….

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much..

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centr….

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows..

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which….

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be..

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society..