I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.