Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.