Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.