The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.