Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.