The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

The true poem is the poet's mind.