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

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

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

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.