Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.