All good things are wild and free.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

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