Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.