We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.

There is no beginning too small.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.