There is no history of how bad became better.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.