I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.