The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .