We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I am very little of a traveler.

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

Man is but the place where I stand.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.