The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.