We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.