Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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.