I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!