A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Nature hates calculators.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.