It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

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

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.