That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.