The voice of nature is always encouraging.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.