The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.