Boston has opened and kept open, more turnpikes that lead straight to free thought and free speech and free deeds than any other city of live or dead men.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body

The lengthening shadows wait the first pale stars of twilight.

October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

A man's mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.

Certainly generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.