The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.