The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.