What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.