The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is madeand at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!