Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.