Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?