To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.