“We elms of Malvern Hill Remember every thing;But sap the twig will fill: Wag the world how it will,Leaves must be green in Spring.”

“Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.”

“Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind”

“But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do -- remember that -- and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.”

“Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.”

“I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.”

“We cannibals must help these Christians.”