Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.