New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

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

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

That government is best which governs least.