The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.