Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.