The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?