Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.