Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.