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

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.