They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy..

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting..

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers..

God'll send the bill to you..

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality..

New occasions teach new duties..

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide..

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the b….

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend..

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter..

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling an….

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from ….

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character..

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of coun….

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache..

Silence is sorrow's best food..

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run..

Time makes ancient good uncouth..

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking..

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train..

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men..