Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.