There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.