The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Love your life, poor as it is.

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Your religion is where your love is.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.