To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her operations and man's art even in the details and trifles. When the overhanging pine drops into the water, by the sun and water, and the wind rubbing it against the shore, its boughs are worn into fantastic shapes, and white and smooth, as if turned in a lathe. Man's art has wisely imitated those forms into which all matter is most inclined to run, as foliage and fruit.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?