When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

It loves more readily than it hates.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.