Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.