It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

I am very little of a traveler.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.