I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.