Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least..

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid..

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they..

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us..

It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun mo….

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist..

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown..

I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and….

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler….

Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my ….

Objects of charity are not guests..

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells….

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirabl….

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take..

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the ….

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which ….

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal..

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any….

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to..

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven..

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France..