It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

As for health, consider yourself well.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.