Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

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

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.