Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

America is a country of young men.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.