If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.