The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.