Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the ….

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went..

It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run….

What is religion? That which is never spoken..

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter..

We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser….

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself..

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all ….

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

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

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..

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….

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants..

Oh, one world at a time!.

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

You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single….

I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am….

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

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not..

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. On….