We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!