To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

I was determined to know beans.

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.