Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.