Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.