A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.