The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.