Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.