In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Much is published, but little printed.