It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.