What a privilege it is to be an American!.

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its ….

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and s….

Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opi….

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton..

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling angu….

By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thin….

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere ….

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacef….

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air..

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe..

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius..

Nature never writes a blind hand..