Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.