A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

A fact may blossom into a truth.