We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.