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

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

We are older by faith than by experience.