Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.