I have great faith in a seed..

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns..

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgres….

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for ….

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night..

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies….

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence..

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries..

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be rem….

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success..

The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history until the….

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are ….

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased..

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, the….

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has b….

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech..

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind..

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression..

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable….

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success..