Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.