I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.