There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.