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.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.