Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

We need the tonic of wildness.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.