May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars..

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province..

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books..

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and t….

When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly over….

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine..

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?.

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous ….

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of….

There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Wa….

As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinio….

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the ar….

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth o….

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and n….

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things..

We bless and curse ourselves..

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my….

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance..

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer m….

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold..