Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption..

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns..

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season..

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one..

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the m….

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries a….

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer..

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him..

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art..

Of what significance are the things you can forget..

Things don't change. We change..

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Natur….

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgres….

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take side….

I have great faith in a seed..

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties..

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer..

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty p….

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the….

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….