In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.