We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

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

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.