Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.