Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.