The greater number of men are merely corporals.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.