What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river.... The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.... Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

I would stand upon facts.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.