There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not re….

I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even o….

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; ….

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing..

Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the ….

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversi….

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly..

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature..

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born..

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the….

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams.….

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural..

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same ….

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea..

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering throu….

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!.

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light..

We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose salutation is as….

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-….

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade….

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but t….