God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
Love is the essence of God.
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.