As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.