It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

There is no history of how bad became better.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.