Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.