Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

When a man meets his make, society begins.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.