I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering throu….

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone..

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet..

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter..

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe..

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this,….

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by th….

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Seco….

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone..

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society..

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage ….

Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the descripti….

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for….

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates….

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis..

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. T….

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated..

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himse….

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine..