I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.