Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the ….

Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loite….

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle..

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength..

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they d….

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would rec….

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, s….

Why look in the dark for light?.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones..

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the U….

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it we….

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on t….

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country..

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose..

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance..

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive..

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil..

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom..

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried..

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing h….