How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.