I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.