I am in love with this green Earth.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!