We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.