The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.