If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

All writing comes by the grace of God.