You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.