What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The true ship is the ship builder.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.