There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.