I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?