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….

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….

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were….

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back..

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to….

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness..

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like….