The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.