Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.