It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.