A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.