The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.