What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.