We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.