New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.