There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and ….

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple ….

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again..

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer..

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them..

As a man thinks of himself, so he is..

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the wee….

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashio….

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure ….

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short..

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. ….

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere..

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest..

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just..

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the ….

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher..

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a ….

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwh….

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets ….

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers..

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of m….