In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.