Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.