All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.