The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Who loses a day loses life.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

Under every deep a lower deep opens.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.