The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

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

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.