Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and ...wars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the econo...my of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and "repeating" votes, or wealth by fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves f...rom the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »