The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes an….

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical….

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laborious….

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all..

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see..

I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his bo….

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul..

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring..

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets..

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brou….

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals..

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes..

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain..

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for ….

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculat….

When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincer….

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour..

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers..

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live..

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference..

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?.