The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.