Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.