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….

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

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

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones….

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season..

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer..

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take side….

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty p….

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Natur….

Things don't change. We change..

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries a….

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption..

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?.

I have great faith in a seed..

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns..

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgres….

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for ….

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night..

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies….

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence..