How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.