We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.