The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

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

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.