I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.