Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.