One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought..

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon..

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful..

No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the qu….

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all..

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on..

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument..

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me..

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your ….

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by..

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory..

I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as forme….

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly..

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows..

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand..

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost..

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of pa….

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness..

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own natur….

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds..