The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.