WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.