I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, s….

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science..

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances..

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it..

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into i….

I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garmen….

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the Wor….

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - ….

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?.

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station..

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour..

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants..

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetra….

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the t….

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man..

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor..

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain..

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions..

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth..