In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

We are wiser than we know.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.