A forte always makes a foible.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.