Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

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.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.