So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.