But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

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.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.