Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.

The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer's best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.