As for health, consider yourself well.
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.
As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.
How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.
There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd’s dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.
The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.