The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

We are superior to the joy we experience.

I am very little of a traveler.