We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.