I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.