Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.