Those who work much do not work hard.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.