Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.