I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.