There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.