The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.