Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?