A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird