A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Even trees do not die without a groan.