A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Today is a king in disguise.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.