The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.