It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.