Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.