Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.