Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.