It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Natur….

Things don't change. We change..

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries a….

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption..

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?.

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….

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

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….

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..

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

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

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ..

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

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….

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

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion..