Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.