The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena, ….

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house..

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn..

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven,….

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me..

While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live onl….

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody..

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and prep….

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a….

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the ….

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery..

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofit….

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating i….

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross ….

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or t….

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator..

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect..

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development..

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day f….

We hate the kindness which we understand..

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in….