Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.