The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.