I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.