As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.