I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.