The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.