We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.