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.

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.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.