Spring-an experience in immortality.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.