Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

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