This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.