I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.