The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

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

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.