Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails - aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Much is published, but little printed.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.