Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.