No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring..

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets..

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small….

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive..

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brou….

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals..

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you..

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes..

That government is best which governs least..

There is no beginning too small..

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain..

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for ….

For things to change, we must change..

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life..

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all..

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see..

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculat….

The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes an….

I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his bo….

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources..

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laborious….