The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.