Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.