Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.