Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.