If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

We can never have enough of Nature.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself.