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.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.