I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory..

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from whi….

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat..

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding..

What we need to know in any case is very simple..

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements..

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if yo….

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use..

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide ri….

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and moun….

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure..

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense..

If you give money, spend yourself with it..

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the posse….

Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which….

My friend is one... who take me for what I am..

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed..

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east..

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head..

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact..