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

I have no time to be in a hurry.

That grand old poem called Winter

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.