The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

I am a part and parcel of God.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.