In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.