For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Literature is eavesdropping.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Coal is a portable climate.