Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

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

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.