There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?