As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.