Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.