Live the life you've dreamed.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.