The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Every time you wink the stars move.

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.