Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.