Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.