We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.