I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

Where is the "unexplored land" but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is "unexplored land," to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.

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