You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.