A gun will give you the body, not the bird

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.