What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.