The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.