A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.