What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life, – life passed through the fire of thought.
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth’s orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star.
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor’s sake, stand fast and suffer long.
Free should be the scholar – free and brave.
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.