It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

God cannot save them from fools.

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.