My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.