To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.