The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.