If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.