How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.