Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.