Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!