Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.