Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.