A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.