The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.