I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.