As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.