Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.