A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.