If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The most alive is the wildest.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.

Those who work much do not work hard.