Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her operations and man's art even in the details and trifles. When the overhanging pine drops into the water, by the sun and water, and the wind rubbing it against the shore, its boughs are worn into fantastic shapes, and white and smooth, as if turned in a lathe. Man's art has wisely imitated those forms into which all matter is most inclined to run, as foliage and fruit.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.