Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

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.