Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

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

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

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?

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.