Trees indeed have hearts.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

There is no beginning too small.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.