Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.