In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?