A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.