Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The lover of letters loves power too.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.