Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the….

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method..

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note a….

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the mos….

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward..

In their daily life, all are braver than they know..

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors..

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence..

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full..

However mean your life is, meet it and live it..

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned..

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of..

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature..

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse..

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect..

It is the man determines what is said, not the words..

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear..

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very ….

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior….

I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is stil….

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once..