The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.