Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.